Phillip Marzluf

Professor / Graduate Faculty
Ph.D. 2003, University of Oklahoma

Email: marzluf@ksu.edu
Office: ECS 217

Field of interest:
Composition and Rhetoric, Professional and Technical Communication, Literacy Studies, Pedagogy, Asian Studies

Phillip Marzluf combines his interests in literacy studies, world literature, travel writing, and composition-rhetoric with his interests in Asian and Mongolian Studies. He has recently published Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020 (University of Amsterdam Press, 2023), which examines the interactions between Western travelers and Mongolians over the past 160 years. Currently, he is writing A Death in the Gobi, which investigates the 1913 murder of a Scot, George Grant, while he was protecting the telegraph lines linking China, Mongolia, and Russia.

Recent Publications

Books

Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020. University of Amsterdam Press, 2023.

Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia: Nation, Identity, and Culture (co-edited with Simon Wickhamsmith). Routledge, 2021

Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia: Traditionalist, Socialist, and Post-Socialist Identities and Ideologies. Lexington Books, 2018.

Articles & Chapters

“Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem, Travel Writing, and the Myth of Mongolian Pastoralism.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 33.1 (2021): 161-191.

“Mongolian Language Education Policy.” (co-written with Myagmar Saruul-Erdene) Routledge Handbook on Language Education Policy in Asia, edited by Andy Kirkpatrick and Tony Liddicoat, Routledge, 2019, pp. 137-150.

“Literacy under Authority: The Mongolian Cultural Campaigns.” The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 76, no. 1, 2017, pp. 135-157.

“The Pastoral Home School: Rural, Vernacular, and Grassroots Literacies in Early Soviet Mongolia.” Central Asian Survey, vol. 34, no. 2, 2015, pp. 204-218.

“The Oratory of Khans and Queens: Reading The Secret History of the Mongols Rhetorically.” Education about Asia, vol. 18, no. 3, 2013, http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/18-3-Supplemental/Marzluf.pdf.

“Words, Borders, Herds: Post-Socialist English and Nationalist Language Identities in Mongolia.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 218, 2012, pp. 195-216.