Diane D. Belcher received her PhD in English from Ohio State University. Before coming to Georgia State in 2003, she was Director of the ESL Composition Program and Adjunct Associate Professor of Foreign/Second Language Education at Ohio State. She has also taught as a Foreign Expert at the Beijing Normal College of Foreign Languages. Her research interests include advanced academic literacy, language for specific purposes, and computer-mediated communication. She has co-edited three books on academic literacy, contributed chapters to a number of books, and published articles in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Computers and Composition, Issues in Writing, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and other journals. She co-edits the journal English for Specific Purposes as well as a teacher reference series for the University of Michigan Press titled Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers. She has guest edited two special issues of the Journal of Second Language Writing and is currently editing a third special issue of the same journal. A former member of the TESOL Publications Committee, she now serves on the editorial board of China Review of Applied Linguistics. She has also served as a member of the TOEFL Committee of Examiners and as chair of the TOEFL Test of Written English Committee. Recently she has been an invited speaker at several universities in China, including Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shantou University, as well as at the University of British Columbia.