Ms. Jing Hu

Jing Hu completed her graduate studies in Linguistics and Chinese at Peking University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Penn, she was a Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Prior to that, she taught Chinese at Smith College for almost a decade. She has also served as the Program Director and Language Director of Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL) in Beijing for three summers and was an advisor for Oral History Projects for the Chinese Overseas Flagship Program of the American Councils for International Education. She has given numerous presentations and has many publications as an author, translator, or editor on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Chinese film, and modern and classical Chinese literature, including translations in Anthology of Tang and Song Tales: The Tang-Song “Chuanqi ji” of Lu Xun (World Scientific, 2020) and Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022). She has co-edited Appreciating Contemporary Chinese Film Classics (Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe, 2020) and Appreciating Classics of Modern Chinese Literature (Nanjing University Press, forthcoming).