- Department
- Department of Human Communication and Theatre
- Phone
- +1 (210) 9998940
- Email Address
- ewong@trinity.edu
- Room
- 203
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 tight-knit 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.
Education
• 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
Selected Publications
• 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.
Subjects Taught
• Linguistics
• Asian American language identities
• Chinese Literature in Translation
• Being Young in Asia FYE
Community Service & Involvement
• 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
Teaching and Expertise
• Comparative poetics
• Concrete poetry
• Sinophone literatures
• Translation studies