Teaching
Graduate and Undergraduate Courses
- The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (16:217:533/01:165:470)
- Chinese Martial Arts Film and Culture (16:217:537/01:165:350)
- Interdisciplinary Topics in East Asia: Understanding Asian Community (16:217:512/01:098:322)
- Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies (16:217:501)
- Readings in Modern Chinese Literature (16:217:531/01:165:451)
- Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society (16:165:512)
- Seminar on East Asian Societies (01:098:444)
- Modern Chinese Literature in Translation (01:165:310)
- Chinese Cinema (01:165:262)
Dissertation Examination and Advisory Committee Member or Chair
- Tara Coleman (Chair; associate professor, City University of New York); Lina Qu (Chair; assistant professor, Michigan State University); Xingming Wang; Lidong Xiang; Virginia Conn (Lecturer, Stevens Institute of Technology); Qingfeng Nie (assistant professor, New Era University College); Mavis Chia-chieh Tseng (associate professor, Taipei Medical University); Ping Zhu (associate professor, The University of Oklahoma); Yingjiu Lu; Hayes Moore (Humanities Advisor, University of Colorado Boulder); Yuwen Hsiung (associate professor, Chung Yuan Christian University); Ying Liang (associate professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University).
M.A. in East Asian Studies Examiner
- Linqiu Li, Jingwei Liu, Huixian Cao, Yifan Guo, Jiaqi Gan, Elizabeth Quinn Atwater, Jixin Lin, Yizhen Jiang, Qi Chen, Xinyi Mao, Yuhan Fu, Nan Wang, Yiping Liu, Chenyuan Xu, Christy Lam, Yiqi Zhang, Yirong Du, Xuefei Liu.
M.A.T Committee Member
- Yahsin Chan, Wenhui Liu, Ruonan Liu, Jie Qiao-McCoams, Celia Liu, Shupin Taihsu, Vicky Chu, Cecilia Liu-Mulligan.
Service to Rutgers University
- Advisory Board Member of Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, 2015-present.
- Member of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, 2009-present.
- Member of the Confucius Institute at Rutgers University, 2009-present.
- Coordinator for outside speakers for China Lecture Series in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Confucius Institute’s Distinguished Lecture Series, 2009-present.
- Rutgers University Senate Committee, 2018-2021.
- Member of Rutgers Zimmerli Strategic Plan Committee, 2016-2018.
- Member of Rutgers Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Teaching Excellence, 2016-2018.
- Member of SAS Humanities Area Committee, 2015-2018.
- Member for Asian Languages and Cultures Nominating Committee for Election of Next Department Chair, Spring 2017.
- Member of Asian Languages and Cultures Search Committee, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019.
- Commencement Marshall, Rutgers University, the 250th Anniversary Commencement and SAS Convocation, May 15, 2016.
- Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, 2015-2016.
- Coordinator for internationally renowned Chinese writer Yan Lianke’s (Franz Kafka Prize winner, also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize) visit to Rutgers University and his talk “The Lightness and Heaviness of Contemporary Chinese Literature,” April 10, 2013.
- Coordinator for Taiwan Documentary Film Directors’ visit to Rutgers University, co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, April 10-11, 2012.
- Coordinator of internationally renowned Chinese writer Yu Hua’s (James Joyce Award winner) visit to Rutgers University and his talk “From To Live to Brothers,” March 23, 2009.