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 & the Republic of Georgia
Participated in choral singing summer camps
(1) Learned songs in eight languages and performed with chorus
around South Africa
August 2007
(2) Learned songs in Georgian and other languages and
performed with chorus in the Republic of Georgia
July 2013
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
Now: Department
of Asian Languages and Literatures
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
September 1969-June 1970
Central
Lutheran School ca. 1965, St. Paul, Minnesota
September 1959-June 1969
Employment:
Adjunct Associate Professor:
National
Taiwan University,
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Taipei, Taiwan
Taught full-time from August 1990 to 2021;
currently teaching part-time.
Gave TEDx talk in October 2018
at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
(NTUST),
entitled: 如何用「回音法」學好英文口說
Empathy Can Help
You Learn a Language Better
Distinguished teaching award for
university-wide required classes, 2007
Distinguished teaching award, 2002
Excellence in teaching award, 2001, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017,
2018, 2019
Excellence in teaching award for
university-wide required classes, 2015
Recipient,
National Taiwan University
Excellent scholarly book award, 2007
for dissertation-based book,
Mandarin Compound Verbs
Excellent book chapter award, 2014,
for "East Asian Linguistics"
in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics,
2013.
Outside reader for various MA theses in linguistics,
2008-present
Faculty advisor, Multilingua Conversation Club, NTU,
2005-present
Have served as journal referee/peer reviewer for:
Australian Journal of Linguistics,
English Teaching & Learning,
Feng Chia Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 逢甲人文社會學報,
Folia Linguistica, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing
Research,
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation,
Language and Linguistics 語言暨語言學期刊,
Lingua,
NTNU Concentric 同心圓,
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 臺灣語言學期刊,
Taiwan Journal of TESOL 台灣英語教學期刊,
Tamkang Studies of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
Taiwan University Humanitas Taiwanica 國立臺灣大學 文史哲學報,
Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology/National Science
Council
Open Course Ware courses
online:
(1) Introduction to Phonetics I
(2) Introduction to Phonetics II
(3) Introduction to Linguistics (1)
Online English language course
based on articles written from 2016-present for English Island:
史嘉琳《英語思維50講》
NSC Visiting Scholar:
Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics
Hosted by Prof.
Chiu-yu Tseng
August 2011-July 2012
Substitute Professor of
Phonetics:
National
Chengchi University,
Graduate Institute of Linguistics
Taipei, Taiwan
Taught graduate course in advanced phonetics
for faculty member on leave
October-December 2010
Adjunct Associate Professor:
National Taiwan Normal University,
Graduate Institute of Translation and
Interpretation
Taught course in Chinese-to-English translation in MA program
February 2008-January 2009
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) English Island
magazine, monthly columnist, mostly on English
language
learning and cultural issues January 2016-August 2023
(2) Cave's
Educational Training (CET): lead English
pronunciation workshops
at venues islandwide; recorded educational CDs, edited text copy,
wrote for the CET magazine
(3) National
Institute for Compilation and Translation: served
on junior high English
textbook-writing committee, helped record texts 1996-2001
(4) The
Taipei Chinese PEN: translated short stories and
prose pieces, Chinese to English
(5) China
Post: translated daily/Sunday comics from English
to Chinese,
designed one "Bilingual Word Puzzle" a week, 1987-88
(6) Wei-Chuan Publishing: translated
six cookbooks, Chinese to English
(7) Chinese
Television System (CTS): translated TV scripts,
Chinese to English
(8) The
Kuang-chi Cultural Group: recorded scripts for
multimedia productions
(9) 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
Volunteer ESL instructor, tutor:
International Institute of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota
Student internship; taught foreigners English
1972-73
Volunteer reading tutor for
Mexican-American child:
Migrant Tutorial
St. Paul, Minnesota
1972-73
Sunday school teacher:
Prince of Peace Deaf Lutheran Church
St. Paul, Minnesota
Taught Sunday school for deaf child with lipreading and sign
language
Took course in sign language locally
1969-70
Organization and committee membership:
Linguistic
Society of Taiwan (LST)
Member: 1998 - present
Board Member: October 2007 - 2011
Committee for
the Promotion of English, Ministry of Education
Committee Member: October 2017-present
Personal interests:
Languages (most recently, Georgian), linguistics (morphology,
phonetics), teaching,
writing and publishing, hiking, botany, Website building,
world music, (non-meat) ethnic food,
travel, family