Han Yu is an associate professor of technical communication in the English Department at Kansas State University, USA. Her research focuses on visual communication, intercultural technical communication, technical communication in China, and writing assessment/training. She has published many articles on these topics in leading journals in the field, including Technical Communication Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Programmatic Perspectives, Technical Communication, and Business Communication Quarterly. Her article Putting China's Technical Communication into Historical Context: A Look at the Chinese Culinary Instruction Genre, published in Technical Communication, won the 2009 Frank R. Smith Outstanding Journal Article Award. Han Yu also edited the collection (with Dr. Gerald Savage) Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication (IEEE/Wiley, 2012).