Wei Wang specializes in Chinese language and literature.
Dr. Wei Wang received her MA in Chinese linguistics from the University of Minnesota, and her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, focusing on the late imperial Chinese literature. Her teaching and research interests include pedagogical grammar, contextualized instruction, heritage language and cultural learning, content and project-based language curriculums, late imperial Chinese fiction, poetry, prose and other literary forms, print history and material culture, and women’s writings. She integrates language proficiency with literary sensibility and cross-cultural communication and understanding.
Teaching has been an essential part of Wang’s professional life. Before joining EALC, she taught Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University, the University of Minnesota, and Princeton University. She was also engaged in the teaching and administration of the summer intensive programs including Princeton-in-Beijing, Duke-in-China, and WashU-at-Fudan University in Shanghai.
Wang teaches Level-one Chinese, Level-two Chinese, Level-four Chinese, Level-five Chinese, Chinese for Heritage Speakers (Level-one & Level-two), Advanced Chinese: "Early Modern Vernacular Chinese Short Stories," Chinese literature: "Literature of Early and Imperial China," and "Readings in Popular Literature and Culture: Writing Stories in Late Imperial China."
Besides teaching, Wang participated in the publishing of Chinese textbooks, including Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese, Princeton University Press, 2006; and Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: A Textbook of Advanced Modern Chinese, Princeton University Press, 2007. She has also published several articles on Chinese linguistics and literature in both Chinese and English.
In 2008, Wang received the Arts and Science Council Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2019, Wei Wang was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Member Award.