• I was born in Taiwan and grew up in Hong Kong. My journey to San Antonio began with a love story. My then boyfriend, now husband and I met in Hong Kong, but he moved to San Antonio for a faculty position soon after. A year later, I joined him in San Antonio and began my doctoral studies. After my graduation, we got married and I started working at Trinity as an adjunct instructor. 

    My teaching at Trinity is interdisciplinary, centering around language. Currently, I am the program director of the Linguistics Minor. Thanks to the program’s interdisciplinary structure and Trinity’s tightknit learning community, I have the opportunity to work with students from various academic backgrounds and develop flexibility in the program to suit their needs.   

    In my first year of teaching at Trinity, I began translating poetry from Chinese to English. Poetry translation gave me the mission to draw attention to humanness through cross-cultural exchange.

    • Ph.D., The University of Texas at San Antonio
    • M.A. (Distinction), The University of Hong Kong (English Studies)
    • M.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Translation)
    • B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

    • Dynasties/Saints: Poems of Chen Li (translator). Cambria Press, forthcoming 2026. 
    • “Translation Multiples of Classical Chinese Poetry: An Interlingual Perspective.” In Multilingualism, Literature and Translation in East Asia, edited by Tzu-yu Lin. Routledge, 2026, pp. 184-203.
    • “Form = Content?: Semiotic Convergence and Divergence in Concrete Poetry” In Identity, Multiplicity, and Resistance in Taiwanese Poetry, edited by Wen-chi Li. Routledge, 2025, pp. 125-145.
    • “Chinese Translingual Writing: In and Out.” The Routledge Handbook of Translingual Literature, edited by Steven G. Kellman and Natasha Lvovich. Routledge, 2021, pp. 287-300.

    • Comparative poetics
    • Concrete poetry
    • Sinophone literatures 
    • Translation studies 

    • Linguistics
    • Asian American language identities 
    • Chinese Literature in Translation
    • Being Young in Asia FYE 

    •    Organizer and chair of student panels at SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies, 2023 and 2025
    •    Editorial board member of Journal of Literary Multilingualism, 2021-2023