Education:
Leiden University
Leiden, The Netherlands
Doctor of Philosophy, Linguistics
Dissertation
title: Mandarin Compound Verbs
1996-2004
Princeton
University
Princeton, New Jersey
Master
of Arts, East Asian Studies
1978-81
Middlebury
College
Middlebury, Vermont
Fourth-year Japanese
Summer
1980
Harvard
University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visiting student in Chinese
Music
Fall 1980
National
Taiwan Normal University
Taipei, Taiwan
Participated in Master
of Arts program
in Chinese Literature and Linguistics
1976-78
University
of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bachelor
of Arts, East Asian Languages
1974-76
Wilhelm-Gymnasium
Hamburg, Germany
Youth for Understanding international
student exchange
program
1973-74
Centro
Escolar Niños Héroes de Chapultepec
Puebla, Mexico
High school exchange student
March 1972
St.
Paul Open School
St. Paul, Minnesota
Audited courses at the
University of Minnesota, 1972-73
1971-73
Employment:
Associate Professor:
National Taiwan University,
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Distinguished teaching award, 2003
Excellent teaching award, 2002
Recipient, National
Taiwan University
2007 Excellent Scholarly Book Award
for dissertation-based book,
Mandarin Compound Verbs
Taipei, Taiwan
August 1990 to present
Radio
co-host:
Ivy League Analytical English
Taipei, Taiwan
August 1999 to present
Writer,
translator, editor:
Government Information Office
Taipei,
Taiwan
June 1987-July 1990
Editor,
translator:
Institute of International Relations
Mucha, Taipei
October 1984-July 1986
Visiting
instructor, Chinese language:
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
August 1983-July 1984
Contract
escort-interpreter, Chinese/English:
U.S.
Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1982
The
Committee on U.S.-China Relations, New York, New York, 1979
Language
instructor, ESL, German, Spanish:
Berlitz School of Languages
Princeton, N.J., 1980; Washington, D.C., 1981
Organization membership:
Linguistic Society of Taiwan (LST)
Member: 1998 - present
Board Member: October 2007 - present