Academic History

Ph.D. in English, University of Washington
M.A. in English, Kansas State University
M.A. in Applied Linguistics, The Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
B.A. The Central University of Nationalities in China, Beijing, China
At St. Thomas since 2006 

Expertise/Specialties

Discourse Theory and Analysis
Linguistics and English Language Study
Language and Ideology
Rhetoric and Stylistics

Selected Publications

“Intertextuality and Nationalist Ideology: Discours“Intertextuality and Nationalist Ideology: Discourse of National Conflicts in News Discourse in the United States and China.” Discourse and Society. 20.1 (2009): 85-122.

"Pidgin and Code-Switching: Linguistic Identities and Multicultural Consciousness in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey." Language and Literature (13:3): 271-289, 2004.

"Virginia Woolf's Narrative Language and Her Androgynous Ideal in Mrs. Dalloway." (In Chinese). Foreign Literature Criticism, Feb. 2004: 17-24, 2004.

Selected Presentations

"Constructing Nationalist Ideologies in the News Media." National Communication Association 2006 Convention. San Antonio, Texas. November 2006.

"Metaphorical Conceptualizations of the Self in English and Chinese." AILA 2005: 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Madison, Wisconsin. July 2005.

"Non-Standard Language Forms in Kingston's Work." Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. Honolulu, Hawaii. June 2004.

Membership in Professional Organizations

Modern Language Association
American Association for Applied Linguistics
National Communication Association