Early Chinese intellectual history classical Chinese poetry late-imperial vernacular fiction early Chinese literature and cultural history with a special emphasis on political conceptualization and social practice of the body in early China Chinese literature, philosophy, medicine and paleography
B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, Northwest University, Xi'an, China, 1993 Ph.D. in Chinese literature from the University of Oregon in 2007 M.A., EALL, University of Oregon, 2003
taught Chinese laguage and culture in both private and public schools for several years and served as the Academic Director of the Chinese Flagship Program at Western Kentucky Universty
Theater and Performance studies Propaganda Sino-Japanese cultural relations Film Studies Chinese language and culture Korean language and culture Gender Politics intersectionality Folklore Popular Culture 20th Century Music and Literature the international avant-garde
1999-2006 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Dissertation: The Theatrics of Revolution: Tian Han (1898-1968) and the Cultural Politics of Performance in Modern China (committee: Professors Leo Ou-fan Lee, David Der-wei Wang, Wilt L. Idema, Andrew Gordon) 1997-1999 Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. M.A., Comparative Literature, w...
Fall 2020 Exchange Professor (postponed) Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador May 2020- Visiting Professor (summer sessions, postponed) Jilin University, Changchun, China July 2019- Distinguished Professor (summer sessions) Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China 2017-2020 Faculty Director, International Village Living Learning Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Summ...
Second language reading and biliteracy development Second language acquisition Psycholinguistics Chinese applied linguistics Language assessment and instruction
Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition. 2012-2016 Carnegie Mellon University. Dissertation: Contributions of morphological awareness to adult second language reading. Committee: Keiko Koda (chair), Charles Perfetti, G. Richard Tucker M.Phil. in Chinese Teaching and Language Acquisition. 2010-2013 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University B.A. in English (Minor in Japanese) 2006-2010 Sun Yat-sen Univer...
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), University of Kentucky, 01/2018-present Affiliate Faculty Member, Linguistics Dept., University of Kentucky, 02/2018-present Interim Director of MA program in Teaching World Languages Fall, University of Kentucky 2019 Assistant Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China 12/2016-12/2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, City University of Hong Kong 08/2016...
autobiography Biography hagiography Daoism Literary Theory Early Chinese Literature and Culture Chinese Studies
Ph.D., Chinese, University of Oregon, 2006 M.A., Asian Studies, University of Oregon, 2001 B.A., History, University of Washington, 1997
Teaching Chinese as a second language Instructional strategies and best practices Curriculum and online curriculum development
M.S.E. Major: Instructional Systems Design. Department of Curriculum and Instruction. College of Education. University of Kentucky, USA (May, 2006) M.A. Major: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Department of Chinese Language and Literature. Nanjing University, China (July, 2003) By the judgment of Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE), the M.A. degree is equivalent to the United States M.A...
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies Program at the University of Kentucky (July 2017-Present) Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Kentucky (2008-2009; June 2010 to 2017) Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Kentucky Full-time Instructor in Chinese (2006-2008; 2009-2010). Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Kentucky, USA Lec...