As a teaching professor of Chinese, I have developed well-rounded teaching skills that enable me to teach various levels of Chinese language as well as a wide range of courses on Chinese literature and culture. Before I joined the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, I taught Chinese language classes at Beijing Language & Culture University and the University of Michigan. I also offered a variety of content courses on Chinese literature and culture, such as "Traditional Chinese Thought and Literature through Comic Books and Animation", "Great Books of China,” and “Introduction to the Study of Asian Cultures.” when I was pursuing my Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan. My research interests include classical Chinese poetry, poetics, and literati miscellanies (note-form literature or biji). In addition, I also develop strong interests in Chinese language teaching, Comparative Literature, East Asian and Chinese culture, traditional and modern Chinese fiction, and early Chinese thought and intellectual history. My Ph.D. dissertation, titled "The Poetics of Miscellaneousness: The Literary Design of Liu Yiqing's Qiantang yishi and the Historiography of the Southern Song," is an interdisciplinary study of the literary accomplishment, the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of a medieval Chinese literati miscellany written/compiled by Liu Yiqing, who was a Song (960-1279) loyalist living in the late 13th-early 14th centuries. My next research project will be closely related to my dissertation research. I will expand my current examination of Liu Yiqing's text to a full-scale study of major literati miscellanies written by other Song loyalists living in the 13th-14th centuries. In addition to providing a comprehensive study of the loyalist literature of the time, this expanded research will look into the specific historical, intellectual and cultural reasons that drove those literati to choose to express their historical and literary vision of the past in the form of literati miscellany. A main purpose of this expanded research is to address and answer the key question that I have raised in my dissertation regarding the study of literati miscellanies, namely, can we find an effective approach that will help us understand and appreciate the special literariness of the genre, without losing sight of the particular poetics inherent in the composition of each individual work?