Chinese Program Faculty

Faculty

Donghui He
Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Chinese
hed@whitman.edu
Olin Hall 333
509-527-5891

Professor He received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Before joining the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Whitman College in 2008, she had taught at Peking University, Vassar College, and the University of Tennessee, where she also served as the Chinese Program Coordinator. Her expertise is in modern and contemporary Chinese culture (literature, cinema, spoken drama, and Chinese cultural diaspora), comparative literature, genre studies, eco-criticism, critical theory, language philosophy, sociolinguistics, and language pedagogy. Professor He has written on Chinese eco-cinema, Sino-Soviet cultural connections, reception aesthetics, 20th century Chinese cultural reconstructions, Chinese intellectual mainstream, and avant-gardism. She is currently completing a book project that explores representations of the natural landscape in Chinese public culture.

Wencui Zhao
Adjunct Instructor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Chinese
zhaow@whitman.edu
Olin Hall 331
509-526-4786

Wencui Zhao received her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Peking University in Beijing, China, and her M.A. in English Literature from Yunnan University in Kunming. She has taught all levels of English language courses to undergraduate students at Yunnan University over the course of more than seventeen years there.  She then served as the Chinese Native Speaker at Whitman for the 2001-2002 academic year, and as a sabbatical replacement in the 2003-2004 academic year.  She has been an adjunct instructor at Whitman since 2007, and has taught all levels of Chinese language courses.  Wencui has additionally been involved in the Whitman in China Program, as well as the Whitman Summer Studies in China Program since it first launched in the summer of 2001.

Language Assistant

Juan Wang 

Language Assistant 2013-2014
wangj@whitman.edu
Language Learning Center, Olin 316
509-527-5856

Juan holds a bachelors degree in English Language and Literature from Yunnan University, and is studying for her master's degree in translation and interpretation from the same university. She has been teaching in the English department of Yunnan since 2003, and has published chapters in books including the Zhaotong Travel Guide, and College English - From Practice to Proficiency. Juan is fascinated by American culture, and notes a special fondness for American museums, the 4th of July holiday, and Reader's Digest magazine.