About

Dr. Jiang Liu, a native Mandarin speaker born and raised in China, is an Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of South Carolina. He is also the core faculty of Linguistics Program at U of SC. He received his PhD degree in Linguistics from the University of Kansas. His primary research areas are second language acquisition and inter-cultural communication. Before his current academic appointment, he served as the Associate Director of Chinese Flagship Program, a federally funded Chinese program at the University of Minnesota. He and his wife, who is also a doctor but a more useful one (an orthodontist) moved from the snowy state of Minnesota to the sunny warm state of South Carolina in 2017. They really enjoy the city of Columbia and state as the weather reminds them the weather back in their hometown in China. Thanks to SC being a Bible belt and the guidance of God, Dr. Liu and his wife get converted to Christianity in 2019 after a decade of studying and living in the U.S. Midwest. As they are raising their children (a 5-year old son and newborn baby girl), Dr. Liu starts to get more and more interested in K-12 Education especially bilingual education. He wants to learn more about the Chinese immersion program at East Point Academy and hope to provide more insight to language education to the board of directors.

Director of Foreign Language Education Committee in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, U of SC in charge of teacher certification program and MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching). The directorship starts in August, 2022. Course coordinator of Chinese Program at U of SC. Editorial board member for the journal Chinese as a second language, which is the academic journal for Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA). Gave guest lecture to River Bluff High School.