Daoism, Chinese fiction, and religion and Chinese literature of late imperial China (14th-19th centuries)
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Taoism and Chinese culture, Chinese culture, pre-modern Chinese fiction in translation
Chinese language curriculum and instruction Practicum in teaching Chinese Chinese language assessment and testing Pragmatics in Chinese
May, 2016 Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, University at Albany, SUNY, USA. Dissertation topic: The Teachability of Situation-Bound Utterances in Modern Chinese as a Foreign Language Context. Committee: Prof. István Kecskés (Chair), Prof. James Hargett and Prof. Carlotta Sparvloi January, 2013 M.S. in General Education, University at Albany, SUNY, USA. Advisor: Prof. István Kecskés January,...
August 2018 - current, Lecturer, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida • First-Year and Second-Year Chinese Summer, 2013 - current, Coordinator and Instructor, Summer Intensive Language Program, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), California. • Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese August 2007 - June 2018, Lecturer, East Asian Studies, ...
University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii. ABD in Chinese Literature, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii. Master of Arts in Asian Studies, May 1990. Concentration: Chinese History and Literature GPA: 3.67. Received two certificates in Chinese to English General and technical translation. National Taiwan Normal University, Mandarin L...
Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida (August 2006-present) Lecturer in Chinese, Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida (August 2002-2006) Visiting Lecturer in Chinese, Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida (August 1998-2002) Editorial and P...
language pedagogy, second language acquisition, computer assisted language learning and pragmatics.
MA, Applied Linguistics, Ohio University BA, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University
taught varies levels of Chinese at Ohio University, Beloit College and University of Notre Dame
Han and Medieval Chinese literature, culture, and religion (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and popular religion); Classical Chinese language; literature and history of East Asian medical and mantic sciences; tea history and culture
Ph.D. Indiana University, 2012 (East Asian Languages and Cultures) - Doctor of Philosophy in Chinese, Minor in Religious Studies - Dissertation: “Cracking to Divine: Pyro-plastromancy as an Archetypal and Common Mantic and Religious Practice in Han and Medieval China”; Committee: Robert Eno (dissertation advisor), Stephen Bokenkamp (academic advisor), Robert Campany, Manling Luo, and Aaron Stal...
2019–, University of Florida, Assistant Professor of Chinese: Fall 2019 Chinese Literary Heritage Fall 2019 Classical Chinese I Spring 2020 Tea in China: The History, Culture, and Science of Tea Spring 2020 Second-Year Chinese: Intermediate Mandarin Chinese 2017–2019, College of Charleston, Adjunct Professor of Chinese: Fall 2018 Tea in China: The History, Culture, and Science of Tea (1 section...
Chinese cinema and Sinophone studies, soundtrack, mass culture and media, popular music and youth culture, globalization and multiculturalism, transnational and diaspora studies, Buddhism and film, gender studies and bodily representation.
Ph.D., New York University