Education:
Leiden University,
Leiden, The Netherlands
Doctor
of Philosophy in Linguistics
Dissertation title: Mandarin
Compound Verbs
Advisor/Promotor: Prof.
Frederik H.H. Kortlandt
Readers/Referenten: Prof.
Bernard Comrie, Prof.
Charles N. Li
1996-2004
National
Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Audited courses in Chinese literature
and linguistics, foreign languages, botany
Fall 2004: Speech Signal
Processing with Prof.
Lee Lin-shan
1990 to present
Village
Harmony: South
Africa
Participated in choral singing summer camp
Learned songs in eight languages and performed with choir around South Africa
August 2007
Center
for Kartvelian Studies, Tbilisi
State University
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Took five-week course in Georgian language and culture
July 1-August 7, 2006
Mbira Camp
with Erica Azim, Berkeley, California,
USA
Attended one-week camp in Zimbabwean mbira (thumb piano) music
July 30-August 6, 2005
University of Hawaii
at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Took for credit and audited language
(Burmese)
and linguistics
(historical syntax, advanced phonetics) courses
while teaching in the Chinese department
1983-84
Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey
Master of Arts, East
Asian Studies
Advisor: Mr. Hai-tao Tang
1978-81
Middlebury College,
Middlebury, Vermont
Fourth-year Japanese
under Professors Seiichi
Makino, Akira Nakamura
Summer 1980
University of Maryland, College
Park, College Park, Maryland
Audited classes in ethnomusicology,
Chinese
linguistics
1980-81
Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visiting student in Chinese Music under Professor Rulan
Chao Pian
Fall 1980
National
Taiwan Normal University (Chinese
version), Taipei, Taiwan
Participated in Master of Arts program in Chinese
Literature and Linguistics
August 1976-March 1978
Audited course in Tibetan, 1991-92
University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bachelor of Arts, East
Asian Languages
September 1974-June 1976
Wilhelm-Gymnasium,
Hamburg, Germany
Youth for Understanding
international student exchange program
June 1973-July 1974
Centro Escolar
Niños Héroes de Chapultepec, Puebla, Mexico
High school exchange student
March 1972
St. Paul Open School,
St. Paul, Minnesota
Also audited classes at the University of Minnesota, 1972-73
September 1971-June 1973
Central High School,
St. Paul, Minnesota
September 1970-June 1971
Twin City Institute for Talented Youth
Macalester College campus, St. Paul, Minnesota
(now called the Minnesota
Institute for Talented Youth)
Fine arts and drama, Summer 1970
Russian language, Summer 1971
Chinese studies, Summer 1972
Wilson Junior High School, St. Paul, Minnesota
(Now International
Academy LEAP optional intensive
English language learning program for Hmong students)
September 1971-June 1970
Central
Lutheran School, St. Paul, Minnesota
September 1959-June 1969
Employment:
Associate Professor: National
Taiwan University,
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Taipei, Taiwan
Distinguished teaching award, 2003
Excellent teaching award, 2002
Recipient,
National Taiwan University
2007 Excellent Scholarly Book Award
for dissertation-based book,
Mandarin Compound Verbs
August
1990 to present
Radio co-host: Ivy
League Analytical English
Taipei, Taiwan
Co-host magazine-based English language instruction
over the radio and Internet with Peter
Lai, Wesley
Xi
August 1999 to present
Volunteer English teacher:
(1) Taipei
First Girls Senior High
Taipei, Taiwan
Taught English language and literature
to advanced students at daughter's school
September 2001-June 2003
(2) Chung
Cheng Junior High School
Taipei, Taiwan
Held English classes for students and
English teachers at daughter's school
March 1999-June 1999
Writer, translator, editor: Government
Information Office
Taipei, Taiwan
Department of Printed Materials (now Department of
Compilation and Translation); under Executive Yuan (ROC government)
Wrote, translated, and edited government documents and publications
including presidential speeches, the Republic of China Yearbook
Did occasional translations for Sinorama magazine
June 1987-July 1990
Adjunct instructor, English language:
Fu Jen
Catholic University (Chinese
version)
Department of English Language and Literature
Taipei, Taiwan
Taught junior English conversation and composition
August 1985-June 1986
Editor, translator: Institute
of International Relations,
National
Chengchi University
Taipei, Taiwan
October 1984-July 1986
Freelance translation, writing, editing, voice recording,
teaching:
Includes:
(1) National
Institute for Compilation and Translation: served on junior high English
textbook-writing committee, helped record texts 1996-2001
(2) Cave's Educational
Training: recorded educational CDs, edited text copy,
gave pronunciation training classes islandwide, wrote for the CET magazine
(3) The Chinese
PEN: translated short stories and prose pieces, Chinese to English
(4) China Post:
translated daily/Sunday comics from English to Chinese,
designed one "Bilingual Word Puzzle" a week, 1987-88
(5) Wei-Chuan
Publishing: translated six cookbooks, Chinese to English
(6) China Television System
(CTS): translated TV scripts, Chinese to English
(7) The Kuang-chi Cultural
Group: recorded scripts for multimedia productions
(8) Translations, voice-over recording for numerous government and private
agencies
Taipei, Taiwan
1984-present
Visiting instructor, Chinese language:
University of Hawaii
at Manoa
Department of East
Asian Languages and Literatures
Honolulu, Hawaii
August 1983-July 1984
Substitute teacher, English, foreign languages
East
Syracuse Minoa High School
East Syracuse, New York
1982-83
Contract translator, Chinese-English
Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), U.S. government
Arlington, Virginia; work submitted by mail
Now World
News Connection
1980-82
Contract escort-interpreter, Chinese/English:
(1) U.S.
Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1982
(2) The
Committee on U.S.-China Relations, New York, New York,
1979
Language instructor, ESL, German, Spanish:
Berlitz School
of Languages
(1) Princeton,
New Jersey, 1980; (2) Washington,
D.C., 1981
Research assistant
(1) Princeton University, for Mr. Hai-tao
Tang
Princeton, New Jersey
Assisted in Chinese historical linguistics section of Chinese
Linguistics Project
1980
(2) University of Minnesota, for Prof.
Liu Chun-jo
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Collected materials on Chinese vernacular literature
Summer 1979
Language instructor, German and Spanish: St.
Paul Open School
St. Paul, Minnesota
Taught several German and Spanish courses while enrolled as a student
September 1971-June 1973
ESL instructor, tutor: International
Institute of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota
Student internship; taught foreigners English
1972-73
Sunday school teacher, Prince
of Peace Deaf Lutheran Church
St. Paul, Minnesota
Taught deaf child Sunday school with lipreading and sign language
Took course in sign language locally
1969-70
Organization membership:
Linguistic Society of
Taiwan (LST)
Member: 1998 - present
Board Member: October 2007 - present
Personal interests:
Languages (most recently, Georgian), linguistics (morphology, phonetics),
teaching,
publishing, hiking, botany, Website building, world music, (non-meat) ethnic
food,
travel, family