Dean of Strategic and Global Initiatives & Professor of Chinese
Expertise: International Education, Global Liberal Arts, Study Abroad, High-impact Practices, Co-curriculum, Academic Partnerships, Modern Chinese Literature, and Translation
Achievements:
- National research fellowships/grants from Fulbright; American Councils of Learned Societies; Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation); Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Connecticut College – Helen Brooks Regan Faculty Leadership Award (2015)
- Columbia University – Alumna Achievement Award (2004)
- Books: Writing Women in Modern China (1998); Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth Century China (2005); Writing Women in Modern China: The Revolutionary Years (2005)
- Institutional Achievements: Inaugural Director of the Walter Commons for Global Study and Engagement
