Asao B. Inoue

Asao B. Inoue is Professor of Rhetoric & Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He has published on writing assessment, validity, and composition pedagogy in academic journals and many edited collections. His co-edited collection Race and Writing Assessment (2012) won the Conference on College Composition and Communication's (CCCC) Outstanding Book Award for an edited collection in 2014, while his book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, won the conference's 2017 Outstanding Book Award. He also won the Council of Writing Program Administrator's 2014 Outstanding Scholarship Award. He was elected to his discipline's national organization, CCCC, as their Assistant Chair in 2017, then as Program Chair (2018), Chair (2019), and Immediate Past Chair (2020). He frequently conducts workshops, lectures, and keynotes on antiracist writing assessment for colleges and universities. In 2021 with his wife, he initiated the Asao and Kelly Inoue Antiracist Teaching Endowment at their alma mater, Oregon State University.