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 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.
Taipei, Taiwan
August 1990 to present
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
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