Teaching

• I am currently accepting graduate (Master’s) students at my affiliations (we only enroll Master’s and Ph.D. students) and occasionally co-supervise Master’s and Ph.D. students from other universities in Beijing. 

• If your research interests overlap with mine (see this page for details) and you would like to work with me, please contact me via email — attaching your CV is preferred. Students from other affiliations must gain approval from their own advisors.

• I usually designate one weekday as the student day. For Fall 2025, it is Thursday. Feel free to schedule office hours with me before 3 pm on that day :-)

• For work–life-balance reasons, I prefer to be contacted via email. I usually reply within 24–48 hours on weekdays and within 48–72 hours on weekends or public holidays and during conference travels.

1. Nominated for the 2023 Graduate Student Teaching Award by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Georgetown University

2. Nominated for the 2022 Graduate Student TA Award by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Georgetown University

@ Beijing Foreign Studies University [北京外国语大学]:

1. Graduate Seminar: Formal Syntax, Semantics, and Their Interface [graduate; spring & fall semester]

   • 研究生研讨课: 形式句法学、形式语义学及句法-语义接口

   • Note: This is a two-year pre-thesis training program for my advisees, during which they will receive systematic instruction in Syntax I–III, Semantics I–III, and two (Morpho)syntax–Semantics Interface seminars.

2. The Formal Semantics session of the Theories of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics class series [graduate; fall semester]

   • 外国语言学及应用语言学理论: 形式语义学部分; coordinated by Baocheng Han

   • Note: This is a mini-course introducing Formal Semantics.

3. Language & Cognition [undergraduate; spring semester]

   • 语言与认知; at the School of English and International Studies [英语学院]

   • Note: This is an introductory course to Linguistics & Cognitive Science, which I taught as an external invited instructor. It covers psycho-/neuro-linguistic foundations and recent developments in different subfields of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), with additional discussion of language acquisition, bi-/multi-lingualism, and sign languages. Offered on a non-regular basis.

4. (in prep.) Semantics [graduate; spring semester]

   • (形式)语义学

   • Note: This is basically Semantics I.

@ Georgetown University, US:

1. Grammatical Analysis [namely, undergraduate syntax]

   • Instructor; instructor for the recitation session; TA

2. Introduction to Linguistics [undergraduate]

   • Instructor; TA

3. Semantics & Pragmatics I [graduate]

   • TA

4. Syntax I [graduate]

   • Instructor for the recitation session; TA

5. Intensive Second Level Chinese II Drill session [undergraduate & graduate]

   • Instructor

@ China Foreign Affairs University [外交学院]:

1. English as Second Foreign Language [graduate]

   • 二外英语; instructor