Professor Wang received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include pre-modern Chinese literature and culture, late imperial (Ming-Qing) women’s writing, and Chinese literature and religion. In addition to her scholarly articles, she is the author of the book "Reverie and Reality: Poetry on Travel by Late Imperial Chinese Women" (2014).
Professor (Aaron) Feng Lan received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1998. He specializes in comparative literature, with particular research interests in Chinese-American literary relations, modern Chinese literature, Chinese diasporic literature and culture, Chinese cinema, and translation studies. He is the author of "Ezra Pound and Confucianism: Remaking Humanism in the Face of Modernity" (University of Toronto Press, 2005), and has published widely in these areas in English and Chinese academic journals.
John Xujun Feng has been teaching Chinese language courses at Florida State University since 2006, ranging from basic to advanced levels, and has also served as the supervisor of Chinese teaching assistants. His research interest includes second language acquisition and teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
Zafer Lababidi (Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) is a professor of Arabic whose research and teaching focus on Arabic phonetics and phonology, as well as the pedagogy of Arabic as a foreign language. His scholarly work explores issues of language acquisition, with particular attention to how learners perceive and produce Arabic sounds, the challenges they face in mastering pronunciation, and the development of effective methods for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers
