Book
Liu, W.M. & Liu, R.Z. (Under contract). The Psychology of White Supremacy and White Privilege. Oxford University Press.
Refereed Journals
Liu, R.Z. (2019). Humanizing the practice of witnessing trauma narratives. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 63(3), 347-350.
Liu, W.M., Liu, R.Z., et al. (2019). Racist trauma, microaggressions, and becoming racially innocuous: Acculturative distress and White supremacist ideology. American Psychologist.
Liu, R.Z., & Sunstein, B.S. (2016). Writing as alchemy: Turning objects into stories, stories into objects. Journal of Folklore and Education. New York, NY: Local Learning, the National Network for Folk Arts in Education.
Liu, R.Z. (2013). “The Things They Carried”: Unpacking trauma scripts inside a community writing workshop. Counseling Psychology Quarterly special issue: “Through a Glass Darkly: Meaning-Making, Spiritual Transformation, and Posttraumatic Growth after Trauma.” 26:1
Sunstein, B.S., Liu, R.Z., Hunsicker, A, & Baker, D. (2012). Math in the margins: Writing across curriculum into community heritage. English Journal. 102:2. (November).
Sunstein, B.S., Liu, R.Z., Baker, D., & Hunsicker, A. (2012). “I Eat What You Grow”: High school partners write about geometry across a big backyard. International Journal of the Humanities. 9:9. 233-250.
Book Chapters
Hines, D., Young, J.L., Liu, R.Z., & Wandix-White, D. (2020). “Can We Talk?:
Promoting Anti-Oppressive Futures for Girls of Color through a Social Justice Enrichment Program.” In J. Dyches, B.L. Sams, A. Boyd (eds.) Subversive teaching: Education as an act of resistance in the ELA classrooms. Gorham, MN: Myers Education Press.
Liu, W.M. & Liu, R.Z. (2020). Asian Americans in Higher Education. Sage.
Liu, R.Z. (2014). The Sorceress of Westminster: The nonfiction writer and ethnographic researcher positioning. In J.H.X. Lee (ed.) Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States: Memories and Visions – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Liu, R.Z. (2014). Of flying brooms and sorcerers: Spell-castings, love potions, and supernatural plants. In J.H.X. Lee and K. Nadeau (eds.) Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield.
Liu, R.Z. (2010). In J.H.X. Lee, & K. Nadeau (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Asian Pacific American Folklore. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. Eleven essays on Vietnamese American cultural practices: Vietnamese American proverbs and maxims; Vietnamese American narrative folktale; Vietnamese American art and crafts; Vietnamese American social etiquette and customs; Vietnamese American festivals and holidays; Vietnamese American rites of passage; Vietnamese American Lunar New Year: Tet; Vietnamese American superstitions and taboos; Vietnamese American clothing and jewelry; Vietnamese American dying and death rituals; Vietnamese American home decorations.
Creative Essays and Edited Chapbooks
Liu, R.Z. (in progress). Gardenias. Glimmer Train.
Liu, R.Z. (in progress. Watching. Creative Nonfiction.
Liu, R.Z. (2014). The woman and Buddha and Jesus. Wag’s Revue (Issue 17) Online Literary Journal. http://www.wagsrevue.com
Liu, R.Z. (2004). Shrunken twisters (Radio Essay). Iowa Public Radio/NPR
Liu, R.Z. (Ed). (Spring, 2013) Of the Folk: Ordinary Lines, Extraordinary Portraits. Times Club
Editions at Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, IA. (independent press).
Liu, R.Z. (Ed). (Spring, 2012) Of the Folk: Reflections. Times Club Editions at Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, IA. (independent press).
Scholarly Works in Progress
Liu, R.Z., Liu, W.M., Jones, S.P., Young, J.L., Shockley, E.T., & D’Cruz, G. (in progress for spring 2021). The onto-epistemologies of white supremacy and anti-Blackness in teacher inquiry: Lost in translation between theory and practice. Special issue in English Teaching: Practice and Critique.
Liu, R.Z., Rushek, K., Garrison, Y.L., & Ali, S. (in progress for spring 2021). “I wrote this blurred American flag”: The racial and socio-political realities in rural Latinx youth’s counter-self-portraits. Special issue in Qualitative Studies in Education.
Jones, S.P. & Liu, R.Z. (forthcoming). Guest co-editors special issue: Anti-Blackness in English Curriculum, Practice, and Culture. English Teaching: Practice and Critique.
Turner, J.D., Liu, R.Z., & Griffin, A.A. (forthcoming). Guest co-editors special issue: Race(ing) towards Futurity: Black and Latinx Youths’ Multimodal Compositions of Future Selves and Literacies. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.