curriculum vitae - Ivan Allen College - Georgia Institute of Technology

JIN LIU
Assistant Professor of Chinese
School of Modern Languages
I. EARNRED DEGREES
Ph. D. 2008 Cornell University East Asian Literature
M. A. 2000 Beijing University, China Chinese Linguistics
B. A. 1997 Beijing University, China Chinese Language and Literature
(concentration in Chinese Linguistics)
II. EMPLOYMENT
2008-present
Assistant Professor of Chinese, School of Modern Languages
Georgia Institute of Technology
III. TEACHING
A. COURSES TAUGHT
Spring 2012 CHIN 4004 Advanced Chinese III: 11 students
Contemporary China
Fall 2011 CHIN 4003 Advanced Chinese II: 7 students
Contemporary China
Spring 2011 CHIN 4004 Advanced Chinese III: 10 students
Contemporary China
CHN 2002 Intermediate Chinese II 22 students
Fall 2010 CHIN 4003 Advanced Chinese II: 16 students
Contemporary China
CHIN 2001 Intermediate Chinese I 16 students
Spring 2010 CHIN 4004 Advanced Chinese III: 10 students
Contemporary China
Fall 2009 CHIN 3813 Special Topics: 15 students
Advanced Chinese II
CHIN 2002 Intermediate Chinese II 6 students
Summer 2009 CHIN 3691 Chinese for Current Events 11 students
Spring 2009 CHIN 4813 Special Topics: 13 students
Advanced Chinese III
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CHIN 2002 Intermediate Chinese II 15 students
Fall 2008 CHIN 3813 Special Topics: 10 students
Advanced Chinese II
CHIN 2001 Intermediate Chinese I 7 students
B. INDIVIDUAL STUDENT GUIDANCE
Summer 2009 CHIN 4699 Undergraduate Research Thomas Hazzard
C. OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES
1. Chinese LBAT Recruiting, Development, Co-Directing, and Teaching
a. Taking full responsibility for Chinese LBAT 2011 Recruiting. Successfully
recruited 26 students (record high), including 6 ROTC students and 4 non-GT students;
worked with my colleague to extend the program from 6 weeks to 8 weeks, offering an
additional, optional 2-week program in Qingdao; developed and led the cultural and
business sites visits and other extracurricular activities in Qingdao; upgraded the LBAT
website and made it more informative and resourceful; GT Chinese Classes Promotion
Presentations; GT Study Abroad Fair; Chinese LBAT Information Session and Dinner.
b. Took full responsibility for Chinese LBAT 2009 Recruiting. Successfully recruited
11 students (record high); GT Chinese Classes Promotion Presentations; GT Study
Abroad Fair; Chinese LBAT New Year Dinner.
2. Curriculum Development at Georgia Tech
a. Developed and Improved LBAT Curriculum in 2011: set up a framework to operate
a big, expanding program; recruited, supervised, and coordinated with 5 local teachers;
revamped the syllabi of the three courses CHIN 3691, 3692, and 3693 for the Shanghai
program, adopted two most widely-used textbooks; implemented “Language Pledge,”
which required students to speak Mandarin during the program period in Shanghai.
b. Developed and Improved LBAT Curriculum in 2009: added a one-on-one individual
conversation session; coordinated with the host institution to offer three free cultural
courses in Taiji, Chinese cooking, and martial arts; organized interactions with the host
SJTU students, local families and residents; integrated classroom learning with field
trips and site visits; designed and conducted student questionnaires, etc.
c. Fall 2008-present: Developed and taught two new 4 th -year Chinese courses (approved
by the IUCC in September 2009): CHIN 3813/4003 “Advanced Chinese II:
Contemporary China” and CHIN 4813/4004 “Advanced Chinese III: Contemporary
China.” Introduced the textbook, Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern
Chinese by Princeton University Press; developed a curriculum with a good balance
between heritage learners and non-heritage learners; integrated a wide range of
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multimedia materials drawn from contemporary Chinese films, documentaries,
television shows, music, images, and pictures.
d. Fall 2010: worked with the GT Library Reserves to upload the Integrated Chinese
textbook and workbook CD online, an effort that has vastly improved the learning
facilities for the tech-savvy students at GT.
2. Intensive Summer Chinese Programs
a. June-Aug 2006. Middlebury Summer Chinese School, Middlebury College,
Middlebury, VT
Taught third-year intermediate Chinese, taught drill sections and lecture classes
alternately, conducted one-on-one individual sessions, attended class-preparation
sessions, and led the singing club of the Chinese School
b. June-Aug 2004. Princeton University Intensive Chinese Summer Program in
Beijing (PIB), Beijing Normal University, Beijing
Taught fifth-year advanced Chinese, taught drill and discussion sections, conducted
individual tutorials, led “Chinese table” lunches, attended class-preparation sessions,
participated in fieldtrips and other cultural activities in Beijing, and assisted in the
recruitment of local teachers and in the collaboration with the host institution
3. 2001-2006. Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
-Led three discussion sections (roughly 80 undergraduate students each year) in ASIAN
212 “Introduction to China,” a cultural course dealing with topics ranging from oracle
bone inscriptions to imperial civil service examinations to modern short stories (Spring
2006, Spring 2005)
-Taught Chinese 109 “Beginning Reading and Writing in Mandarin” for heritage
learners (Fall 2005, Fall 2003)
-Taught the drill sections in Chinese 101 and Chinese 102 “Colloquial Chinese” for
beginners (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
IV. SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A. PUBLISHED BOOKS AND PARTS OF BOOKS
A.1. BOOKS
Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland
China in the New Millennium, Leiden; Boston: Brill, under contract
Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China. co-edited
with Hongyin Tao (UCLA), Singapore; London: World Scientific, 2012, forthcoming.
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A.2. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Use of Chinese Dialects on the Internet: Youth Language and Local Youth
Identity in Urban China,” in Vallah, Gurkensalat 4U & me! Youth Language in the
Study of Youth Language, edited by J. Normann Jørgensen, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010,
99-112. The revised and updated version appeared in Liu & Tao eds. Chinese Under
Globalization.
(with Hongyin Tao) “Negotiating Linguistic Identities under Globalization: Language
Use in Contemporary China,” in Liu & Tao eds. Chinese Under Globalization. An
earlier version published in Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Vol. 10, Number 1, Spring
2009, 7-10. (proportion of contribution: 50%)
B. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
B.1. REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
“Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,”
positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (Duke University Press), provincially accepted.
“Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters
on the Internet,” Chinese Language and Discourse, vol. 2, no. 1, 2011, 58-79.
“Ambivalent Laughter: Comic Sketches in CCTV’s Spring Festival Eve Gala.” Journal
of Modern Literature in Chinese (JMLC), vol. 10, no. 1, 2010, 103-121.
“The Rhetoric of Local Languages as the Marginal: Chinese Underground and
Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
(MCLC), vol. 18, no.2, 2006, 163-205.
D. PRESENTATIONS
Submitted
• “Alternative Translation: The Performativity in Dubbing Films in Chinese Local
Languages,” to be presented in the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian
Studies (AAS), Toronto, Canada, March 15-18, 2012.
• “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,”
presented in the Annual Joint Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) &
International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31- April
3, 2011.
• “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,”
presented in the conference “In the Mix: Asian Popular Music and Culture,” Princeton
University, NJ, March 25-26, 2011.
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• “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,”
presented in the 2nd Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference (IAPMS), Hong
Kong, June 22-23, 2010.
• “Subversive Writing, Local Identity, and Diaspora: Representation of Dialects with
Chinese Characters on the Internet,” presented in the panel “Other Script Politics” in
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
Louisiana, April 1-4, 2010.
• “The Rhetoric of Chinese Local Language as the Marginal in Jia Zhangke’s films,”
presented in the panel “LISTENING IN/TO DOCUMENTARY” in Visible Evidence
XVI conference, Los Angeles, CA, August 13-17, 2009.
• “Performativity in Dubbing Films in Chinese Local Languages,” presented at the 48th
Annual Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), Emory
University, Atlanta, GA, January 2009.
• “A Proposal to Integrate Dialect Films in Advanced Chinese Language Teaching,”
presented at the ACTFL/CLTA Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2008.
• “The Use of Popular Songs in Jia Zhangke’s Films,” presented at the 62nd annual
Conference of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Reno,
Nevada, October 2008.
• “Popular Music and Local Youth Identity in the Age of the Internet: A Case Study of
Shanghai Rap and SHN Website,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association
for Asian Studies (AAS), Atlanta, GA, April 2008.
• “The Use of Chinese Local Languages on the Internet: Youth Language and Local
Youth Identity in Urban China,” presented at the Fifth International Conference on
Youth Language, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2008.
• “Performativity in Dubbing Classical Films in Chinese Local Languages,” presented
at the International Conference on Canon (Re-)Formation in the Context of Cultural
Studies, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, May 2005.
• “The Use of Language in City of Sadness,” presented at the New York Conference on
Asian Studies (NYCAS), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, October 2003.
Invited
• “Alternative Voice and Youth Subcultural Identity: The Emerging Rap Music Scene
in China,” invited guest lecture at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, October 20, 2009.
• “Working from the Margins: the Chinese Underground and Independent Films since
the 1990s,” a bilingual talk given at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, July 2006.
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V. SERVICE
A. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
January 2012
August 2011-present
June-October 2011
December 2010
August 2010
July 2009
February 25, 2009
Anonymous Referee of article submitted to Chinese Language
and Discourse
Associate of the China Research Center, an alliance of local
scholars which provides cultural, economic, political and
business research and information in Georgia and the
Southeast
Anonymous Referee of article submitted to Popular Music
Anonymous Referee of article submitted to Journal of the
Chinese Language Teachers Association
Anonymous Referee of article submitted to Modern Chinese
Literature and Culture
Anonymous Referee of article submitted to Chinese Language
and Discourse
Judge, Chinese Speech Contest, Emory University
B. CAMPUS CONTRIBUTIONS
Fall 2011-present
Spring 2012-present
Fall 2011-present
Fall 2011-present
Fall 2011
Serves on the search committee for Chair of Modern Languages
Faculty Advisor, GT Delta Phi Lambda Sorority, which aims to
advocate Asian awareness and empower women leaders
Serves on the scholarship selection committee of Coca-Cola
Foundation “100,000 Strong” Student Scholarship to China,
$200,000 (2011-2014); worked with Phil Mcknight, Juan
McGruder, and Amy Henry on the initial writing of the proposal
in the summer 2011
Serves on six committees in the School of Modern Languages
(Futures, Digital Humanities, Humanities, Linguistics, ML
Awards, and LBAT)
Served on the search committee for a full-time Chinese lecturer
for the Pilot ROTC Chinese Flagship at GT
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Spring 2011
Spring 2011-present
March-April 2011
February 17, 2010
November 21, 2009
Summer and Fall 2009
Summer 2009
January 26, 2009
Coordinated with the Chinese General Consulate in Houston to
secure three Chinese Government Full Scholarships (each
about US $10,000) for GT students, the most prestigious
scholarship awarded by the Chinese Ministry of Education to
American students; headed the selection committee; news
featured in IAC newsletter (March 2011)
Faculty Advisor, Georgia Tech Atlanta Chinese Film Society
Co-organized “Atlanta Chinese Film Festival” with GT Chinese
Friendship Association and GSU Confucius Institute
Hosted Calligraphy Table, Chinese New Year Celebration Event,
Georgia Tech Chinese Student Association (CSA)
Hosted Calligraphy Table, Taste of Taiwan event, Georgia Tech
Taiwanese American Student Association (TASA)
Initiated collaboration between the School of Modern
Languages at Georgia Tech and School of Chinese as Second
Language (Duiwai hanyu jiaoyu xueyuan) at Peking University;
Coordinated and successfully brought a visiting Chinese
instructor from Peking University and initiated the ongoing
faculty exchanges between the two schools
Strengthened collaboration with Shanghai Jiaotong University
and explored future study-abroad partnership opportunities with
Tsinghua University and Peking University
Hosted Calligraphy Table, Chinese New Year Celebration Event,
Georgia Tech Chinese Student Association (CSA)
VII. HONORS AND AWARDS
Spring 2012
Spring 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Summer 2010
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
Summer 2009
Georgia Tech 2012 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence
Georgia Tech Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award
Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College Special Research Award
Georgia Tech Center for International Business and Research Grant
Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College ISERF Funding
Georgia Tech Foundation for International Research
Georgia Tech Faculty Professional Development Award
Georgia Tech Foundation for International Research
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Fall 2009
Georgia Tech Center for International Business and Research Grant
Spring 2008 Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
Spring 2004 Olin Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
Fall 2002
Lee Teng-hui Fellowship, Cornell University
2000-2001 Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
1998 “Red Mansion” Art Award for Singing, Peking University (PKU), China
1998 Glory Scholarship, PKU (the highest-level scholarship in PKU)
1996 First Class Outstanding Student, PKU (the highest honor for PKU students)
1996 Honorable Student in Beijing (the highest honor for university students in
Beijing; awarded by the Education Committee of the Beijing Municipal
Government)
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