Jie Zhang is a Lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in Chinese from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. Before joining Penn, Jie taught Chinese across various levels at institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oberlin College, and in programs like Princeton in Beijing and UW in Tianjin. She has been honored with teaching awards such as the “Instructor of the Year” Award at Oberlin College (2015) and the Honored Instructor Award at UW-Madison (2018). Jie is deeply committed to Chinese language education and research, with a focus on pragmatics, sociolinguistics, humor studies, curriculum design, and the interplay between language and identity.
2024 Ph.D. in Chinese. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2020 M.A. in Chinese. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2015 M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Beijing Normal University.
Pragmatics; teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language; second language acquisition; applied linguistics; inter- and cross-cultural communication; humor; gender; identity
CHIN0100: Beginning Chinese I
CHIN0320: Reading and Writing in Chinese I (for fluent speakers)
2023 Jie Zhang, An Overview of Contemporary China (Chapter 9, Part 1 and 2, for graduate-level Chinese learners), Beijing: Beijing University Press (forthcoming).
2023 Jie Zhang, An Overview of Contemporary China (Chapter 18, for graduate-level Chinese learners), Beijing: Beijing University Press (forthcoming).
2017 Chengnian Wu, Jie Zhang, and Lan Ma (Eds.), Reading Newspapers, Learning Chinese: A Course in Reading Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals Quasi-advanced (II). Beijing: Beijing University Press.