Experience

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  Centre College

  • Danville, Kentucky, United States

  • Assistant Professor of Chinese

    • Aug 2020 - Present
    • Danville, Kentucky, United States

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  Stanford University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Doctoral Candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures

    • Sep 2013 - Aug 2020

    Mei Li Inouye has a PhD in Chinese from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. Her interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, dance, theater, and visual culture. Her research explores transnational exchanges and appropriations, genre and media boundary crossings and transformations, community studies, and the mediating and critical role of memory in modern, post-socialist, and post-modern Chinese literature.

  • Instructor

    • Sep 2016 - May 2017

    Designed curriculum, lectured, led sectionals, graded, and advised students for Stanford courses (“Education as Self Fashioning: Chinese Traditions of the Self” and “Sex, Gender, Power in Modern China”).

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  Stanford University

  • Teaching and Research Assistant

    • Sep 2014 - May 2015

    Led sectionals and graded for “First Year Modern Chinese Language"; lectured, translated and published a short story from Chinese into English and designed an experiential research trip for “Animal Planet and the Romance of the Species.”

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  The Madeira School

  • United States
  • Primary and Secondary Education
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Chinese Program Developer and Chinese Teacher

    • Jul 2007 - Jun 2013

    -Developed a four-year (elementary through Advanced-Placement) culturally contextualized Chinese program for an all-girls’ independent preparatory high school. -Designed regular opportunities for students to interview and interact with international Chinese students.-Created, marketed, and directed research-based travel and exchanges for students on topics such as Chinese migrant workers, middle class, and ethnic minorities.-Also taught Creative Writing, Literature of the American West, and Etymology while developing the program.

  • Assistant to the Dean of Global Programs

    • Aug 2007 - Jun 2009

    -Facilitated inter-disciplinary international travel with learning and service exchange components for students, faculty and staff (South Africa, France, French Exchange, Italy and Greece, England, Ireland, Wales, China, South Dakota, and Egypt). -Developed partnerships with local and international schools and environmental organizations; served as a global liaison between student life and academic departments.-Redesigned the school’s global webpage and mission statement; created an institutionally recognized global trips procedures manual; edited and wrote quarterly global newsletters; organized global events and speakers on campus; worked on the Global Task Force.

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  Inouye Institute for the Arts

  • Gunnison, UT

  • Co-Founder, Creative Writing Director

    • Jan 2007 - Jan 2012
    • Gunnison, UT

    -Co-founded the Inouye Institute for the Arts; started the Inouye Institute Creative Arts Camp, an annual summer camp that teaches music, movement, creative writing, and visual art to youth in rural Utah.-Trained faculty in creative arts integration; designed creative writing curriculum, liaised with media (KSL radio, local and state newspapers) to market the camp.

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  China Programs

  • McLean, VA

  • Co-Director of New Curriculum Design and Development

    • Jun 2009 - Aug 2011
    • McLean, VA

    -Designed programs and curriculum for China Programs; created website text; assisted with outreach and recruitment. (www.chinaprograms.org)-Developed and coordinated lectures on China-related issues such as Chinese Thought, Careers in China, and Migrant Workers and U.S. Factories for independent schools in the Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. area.

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  China Programs, Glimpses of China

  • Shanghai, Beijing, China

  • Program Director, Learning about Shanghai and Beijing

    • Mar 2009 - Aug 2011
    • Shanghai, Beijing, China

    -Directed the Learning about Shanghai and Beijing program for international high school students from Germany, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States.-Selected, trained, and supervised language instructors and TA’s; gathered assessments on the progress, health and wellness of each student; communicated with parents; reported to the director of China Programs; handled finances and tracked program expenses. -Led travel; taught and offered feedback on student research/writing and interview methodologies; facilitated discussions with professionals on the students’ research topics; conducted end interviews with program participants, instructors, and TA’s; wrote comprehensive program reports.*Student research topics included Chinese Nationalism, Netizens’ Impact on Chinese Legal Reforms; Migrant Workers and Household Registration; Middle Class Entrepreneurs, High School Students and Censorship, etc.

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  The International Fund for China's Environment

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • IFCE Education and Training Coordinator

    • Jun 2007 - Sep 2009
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    -Designed, coordinated, and managed a host-family student exchange with an environmental focus for Chinese students in the United States. -Liaised with parents, host families, teaching assistants and the president of IFCE. -Organized a five-city environmental art contest for students in China and the United States; supervised interns.