Keming Liu, Ph.D. Faculty Spotlight

Keming Liu, Ph.D. – Professor of Linguistics and Literature

Dr. Keming Liu serves as the campus ESL liaison in addition to Professor of English. Her courses include Introduction to Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, World Literature, and Professional/Technical Writing. An internationally recognized translator and scholar, she is the author of the recently published book Twilight: A Contemporary Pastoral Poet in China (August 2022) as well as the volume Voices of the Fourth Generation: China’s Poets Today (2010), which was adopted as a required text for Asian literature courses at Hong Kong University and in the UK. Dr. Liu was an editorial consultant for the translation of Platform Monopoly《垄断平台》(2018). In June 2016 she led a doctoral seminar on translation theory and practice at St. Andrews University. In November 2016, she delivered the keynote address on discourse strategies at the Islands-in-Between International Conference at the University of West Indies in Barbados. Her academic works include “Fiction on the Verge: Testing Taboos in The Republic of Wine” in Palgrave’s Handbook of Magical Realism (2020), Adult ESL: Politics, Pedagogy, and Participation in Classroom and Community Programs (Erlbaum, 1998), a book-length primer, Fingertip Chinese (2nd ed., Weatherhill, 2011), along with a Chinese translation of Henry James’s short story “Hugh Merrow” (1987). Her articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as Urban Education, Geo-linguistics, and Wadabagei. She reviews linguistics and literature titles for Choice magazine. Dr. Liu’s short story, “The Red T-Shirt” was featured at Wavehill’s 1996 writer-in-residence workshop. She is actively involved in research on the diachronic and synchronic development of languages and literature.