Courses Taught:
Signing with ease; Sign Language Interpreting (beginners &intermediate levels); Consecutive interpreting
Research Interests:
Deaf studies; Interpreting studies (signed and spoken)
Professional Experience:
1991-present: Faculty, College of Foreign languages and Cultures, Xiamen University.
2023-2024: Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, USA.
2015-2017: Visiting Scholar, University of Delaware, USA.
2012-2013: Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar, Gallaudet University and Georgetown University，USA2010: Visiting Professor, Centre for Translation Science, University of Vienna, Austria.
2006-2007: Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
1999- 2000: Visiting Scholar, School of Languages, University of Westminster, UK.
Educational Background:
PhD in Linguistics, Xiamen University. 2014.
MA in Applied Language Studies, University of Westminster, UK. 2001.
MA in Conference Interpreting, Xiamen University, China. 1999.
BA in English Language and Literature, Xiamen University, China. 1991.
Grants:
2022-2025: Co-investigator. Oral History of Sign Language Interpreters in China. Chinese Ministry of Education Grant.
2022-2025: Co-investigator. Deaf Translators’ Discursive Identity Construction---A data-mining Perspective. Fujian Social Sciences Foundation Grant.
2019-2024: Principal investigator. Sign language interpreter education: In search of a Chinese Model. Chinese National Social Sciences Foundation Grant.
2019-2021: Principal investigator. Resource bank for sign language interpreted high-frequency political discourse. Grant from Chinese Federation for Disabled People.
2018-2021: Principal investigator. IT-assisted interpreter education: A multilingual model. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
2013-2014: Principal investigator. Feasibility studies of a signed language interpreting program under the Masters for Translation and Interpreting (MTI) framework. Grant from the National Steering Committee of MTI.
2011-2013: Principal investigator. Signed language on Chinese Television: Problems and solutions. Chinese National Language Commission Grant.
2008-2011: Principal investigator. Signed language interpreting: Theories and practices in China. Chinese National Social Sciences Foundation grant.
2008-2009: Principal investigator. Investigating signed language interpreting. Fujian Social Sciences Foundation grant.
2004-2005: Co-investigator. Interpreting Asia, interpreting Europe. EU Asia Link Programme.2019-2024: Principal investigator. Sign language interpreter education: In search of a Chinese Model. Chinese National Social Sciences Foundation Grant.