July 2018

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).

Courses Taught

Writing Women in Pre-Modern China

Women Writers in Late Imperial China

The Supernatural in Chinese Culture

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.

Zeina Schlenoff is a teaching professor of Arabic. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and specializes in 20th century French and Francophone Literature, especially women writers from the Arab world. She is the director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program and Center, the founding director of FSU Arabic Language House, and the coordinator and adviser for Arabic in the department.

Research Interests

Social Media in the Arab world

Middle-Eastern women writers

Women in Islam

Arab cinema

Zafer Lababidi is a teaching professor of Arabic, and the assistant director and adviser of the Middle Eastern Studies Program. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and specializes in Arabic phonetics/phonology and teaching Arabic as a foreign language. 

Research Interests

Arabic phonetics/phonology

Speech perception/production

Arabic as a foreign language

Spoken word recognition

Second language acquisition

Dialectal variations in Arabic