Faculty

Ruiyan Lin graduated from the International Chinese StudyCollege of East China Normal University (ECNU) in June 2007, receiving an MAdegree on Linguistics and Applied Linguistics which focuses on TCSL pedagogyand cognitive psychology. She started her career as a TCSL instructor in 2005.During the three years at Donghua University and one yearat ECNU, she was involved in many programs from Japan、Korea、France、Denmark、USA、Kazakhstan、SaudiArabia as well as the regular semesters. He has been highly recommended byprevious students. She likes to keep an easygoing and communicative attitude,but still pushes her students to succeed. In her spare time she likes reading,exercising, watching movies, and checking out new things. 

Hong Liu earned his BA and MA in the International Chinese Study Collegeat ECNU. He has been a full-time instructor in ECNU since 1996 and has taughtat CIEE and NYU in Shanghaifor several years. The courses he has taught include elementary-level Chinese,intermediate-level Chinese, advanced-level Chinese and business Chinese. Withso much experience teaching and a great sense of humor, he is very popular withhis students. Mr. Liu is currently a second-year doctoral student and hisresearch area is teaching methodology. 

Ping Ma has a MA in Teaching Chinese as a Second Languageand is a holder of the Certificate for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language(granted by the Ministry of Education of the PeoplesRepublic of China). “Sunny” Ma has beenteaching Chinese as a foreign language at Tongji Universityand ECNU for more than six years. With her professional teaching skills anddynamic teaching style, she has gained a good reputation with her students. Herhobbies include singing karaoke and playing ping pong. 

Yi Zhou graduated from the International Chinese Study College of East China Normal University (ECNU) in June 2003, receiving a MA degree on Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She worked as a full-time Chinese instructor in Zhejiang Normal University from July 1997 to August 2000, and as a lecturer in Shanghai Conservatory of Music from July 2003 to August 2009. During the past 12 years, she has taught different courses, such as: Intensive reading, Oral Chinese, Chinese Writing，Business Chinese etc. In her spare time she likes reading and shopping. 

Joshua Eisenman is adjunct professor of politics at New York University. He taught East Asian politics at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs in New York from 2009 to 2011 when he moved to Shanghai to teach the Stern School of Business course Political Economy of East Asia at NYU Shanghai. He has been senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC since December 2005. Between September 2003 and December 2005 he served as economics policy analyst at the Congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He has also worked as fellow at the New America Foundation and assistant director of China studies at The Nixon Center, in Washington, DC. In addition to his numerous articles and public speeches Mr. Eisenman is co-editor of China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century (ME Sharpe, 2007) andauthor of the book’s chapter on Sino-African relations.  His is coauthor of China and Africa: A Century of Engagement (Penn Press, expected 2012). 

Degrees: 

• PhD candidate, Political Science (comparative politics and international political economy) the University of California, Los Angeles
• MA, International Relations (China studies and internationaleconomics) Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
• BA, International Relations and East Asian Studies, (Chinese languageand literature) George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs
• Additional studies at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, Beijing Capital Normal University, Harbin Instituteof Technology, Xian Jiaotong University

Andrew David Field graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991 with a BA in Asian Studies, and from Columbia University in 2001 with a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures, specializing in Modern Chinese History. His first book, Shanghai’s Dancing World, explores the cabaret industry of the city during the Republican Era and into the Mao Era. He has taught Chinese, Asian, and world history at colleges and universities in the USA, Australia, China, and Korea.

Anna Greenspan received her PhD in philosophy and cyberculture at the University of Warwick (UK). She did her postdoctoral research in association with McMaster, University in Canada where she is from. Her work, which resulted in a book, focused on India and the IT Revolution. Anna first came to Shanghai in 2002. Gradually her research interest shifted to China’s  - and especially Shanghai’s - fascinating rise. She began teaching at NYU in the spring of 2009. Anna maintains a website at www.wakinggiants.net

Dan Guttman is a lawyer and teacher.  He is currently a visiting Professor at the Peking University School of Law public interest law program, Fellow at the Tsinghua University US/China Center, Fellow (and teacher) at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies and Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara Bren School Center for Sustainability and Governance.  He is engaged in cooperative environmental research and teaching with the Nanjing University School of Environment.  As a Fulbright scholar in China he taught at Tsinghua, Peking, Fudan, Nanjing, and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities.

Dan Guttman served in the Clinton administration as Executive Director of a Presidential Advisory Commission that investigated biomedical experiments, and was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a Commissioner of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. He served as special counsel to Senator David Pryor in U.S. Senate investigations of the use of contractors to do the government’s basic work.

Duncan Hewitt has worked as a journalist in China for the past 15 years. From 1997 – 2002 he was a BBC correspondent, based first in Beijing and later in Shanghai. He now writes for Newsweek from Shanghai, and has also contributed to publications including the Guardian, the Economist, and the Asia Literary Review. His book Getting Rich First: Life in a changing China was published in the UK by Vintage Books in 2008, and in the US by Pegasus as China: Getting Rich First – A modern social history. It focuses on social change in China over the past two decades, including urbanization, media and Internet development, youth culture and the sexual revolution, education, welfare reform and the development of civil society.

He has a degree in Chinese from Edinburgh University, and later worked as an editor and translator of Chinese literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also has an MA in Area Studies (Southeast Asia) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In 2011 he was a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University, where he wrote a paper on China’s relationship with the international media. He has taught at NYU Shanghai since 2007. His translation of a Chinese crime novel is due to be published in 2012 by Penguin Books.

Dr. Jenster has over 25 years working within large multinational firms such as GE, Nortel and American Brands, as well as in private consulting in international marketing, sales, customer service, leadership and team communication. Nancy has a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) in Organisational Behaviour from Grenoble Ecole de Management and Tongji University. Her doctoral research explored Virtual Team Leadership, Team Motivation and Cohesiveness. She obtained her MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and her BA in Japanese Language and Culture from Sophia University in Tokyo. She is currently working in business leadership consulting with Nordic Institute for International Management (www.nimichina.com), as well as serving as adjunct professor for MBA programs at CEIBS, China International Business School and Copenhagen Business School.

Since 1995, she has been OPP (Oxford Psychologists Press) and APT (Assoc. for Psychological Type) board certified to administer and facilitate MBTI, Temperament, FIRO-B, and EQ-i (Reuven Bar-On EQ inventory). In her consulting work, Nancy delivers/facilitates action-learning based development programs, focusing on leadership development, cross-cultural team communication, virtual team dynamics, conflict management and public speaking/presentation skills for global business development. Nancy has designed and delivered leadership/management training programs for Mærsk, AstraZeneca, ECCO, Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Group, UNICEF, IBM, SAP, Danisco, ISS, DAKO, Christian Hansen, ICI, Novozymes, and York Refrigeration. She has lived and worked in the US, UK, Japan, Switzerland, Denmark and China and speaks Japanese, French, Danish and Mandarin. She has lived in Shanghai since 2005.

John Leary has been the managing partner of the Shanghai office of an international law firm since 2005. He represents Chinese and foreign clients on their joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions in China and abroad. He has previously taught at University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Jack Marr has served as Adjunct Professor of Business at NYU's Stern School in Shanghai and acted as Stern's Advising Director from the inception of the program in 2006 through Spring of 2011.  Jack is also a Senior Lecturer at the Kellogg School of Management MBA program in Chicago. Outside of teaching, Jack is a contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit and an advisor to several firms on business development issues in China and Japan. Previously, Jack served as the Business Development Coordinator for the State of Missouri in Japan and China, as an associate consultant for McKinsey & Company in Greater China, as Director of Research for East and North China Agribusiness Markets for the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, and as Business Analyst for Richina Capital Partners. Jack holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago in international relations specializing in East Asian political economy and a B.A. in philosophy and rhetoric from the University of Illinois, and completed McKinsey’s intensive MBA training for non-MBA postgraduate hires. Jack is fluent in Mandarin and Japanese, is an avid mountaineer and rock climber, and is a proud father.

David Perry received an MFA in Literary Translation in 1993 from the University of Iowa’s Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature. In 1994, he moved to New York, where he was active in the downtown poetry community, publishing his first book of poems, Range Finder in 2003. He has published numerous poems, translations, and critical writings on contemporary poetry and art in a number of magazines and journals. In 2006, David moved to Shanghai, where he has been teaching creative writing at NYU Shanghai and serving as faculty adviser for the student publication zaiShanghai since 2008; in the fall of 2011, he began teaching writing in the Liberal Studies Core Program and launched the NYU Shanghai Writing Center, which specializes in offering international students assistance with English for Academic Purposes (EAP). David has taught literature, creative writing and literary magazine editing and production at colleges and universities including the University of Iowa, St. John’s University, the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His writing and research interests include the effects of globalization on contemporary English-language writing and literature, translation theory and practice, the history of the avant-garde, contemporary North American poetry, urbanism and cyberculture.

Dr. Song Guoyou is Associate professor at the Center for American Studies,Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai. He got his Ph.D and MA in international relations in 2006 and 2003 respectively from Fudan University. His study focuses on China-U.S. relations, International Political Economy and American foreign economic policy.

Dr. Song is the author of Balancing Social Interest and State Security (Beijing: Shishi Publishing House, 2007) and also published articles in journals such as World Economy and Politics, Contemporary International Relations, and The Journal of Chinese Political Science among others. He was a Fox Fellow at Yale University from 2005-2006 and did his postdoctoral research at Georgetown University from 2009-2010.

Shaoyi Sun is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Shanghai University’s School of Film & TV. He has taught Chinese film, literature, and cultural studies at the University of Southern California (USC), the University of California at Irvine (UCI), and NYU in Shanghai. He was the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) juror of the 2009 Singapore International Film Festival (Chair), the 2007 Brisbane International Film Festival, the 2001 Hawaii International Film Festival, and a jury member of the 2008 Shanghai International Film Festival’s International Student Shorts Award and the 2000 Dhaka International Film Festival.

Sun received his Ph.D. in Asian literature and film from the University of Southern California in 1999. He is the author of The Matrix of Cinema: Cinematic Space and Cultural Globalism (Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2010), Lights! Camera! Kai Shi!: In-Depth Interviews with China’s New Generation of Movie Directors (New York: EastBridge, 2008), The Imagined City: Literary, Filmic, and Visual Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2009), Structural Transformation of the Media Industry in Asia (co-editor; Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Press, 2009), Global Media Policies: New Perspectives (co-editor; Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Press, 2005) and the Chinese translator of Rey Chow’s Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., 2001). 

Francesca Tarocco received her MA in Chinese Studies from Venice University and her PhD in Chinese History from SOAS, University of London. She is the author of The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism: Attuning the Dharma (Routledge, 2007) and has co-authored two books: Karaoke: The Global Phenomenon (Chicago University Press, 2007) and Made in China (Mondadori, 2008) and more than thirty articles on Chinese Buddhism, Shanghai intellectual history and media and religion in China and East Asia. Her current book project is entitled The Re-enchantment of Modernity: Photography and Buddhist History in China and focuses on the twentieth-century Shanghai religious world and its interactions with a new urban audience through such channels as illustrated books and journals, portraiture, and the mass media.

Tim Tomlinson holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. At Columbia, he studied with Richard Price, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, and Edmund White.  While his time at university was valuable, he’s always been a believer in experiential learning, and of writing that comes from imaginative handling of personal experience. To that end, he’s pursued all sorts of occupations, locations, dead-ends and execrable follies. Don’t get him started, he’s likely to tell you a story.

But since you asked: a short list of the jobs Tim has held includes janitor, ship’s hand, scuba diver, ranch hand, laborer, landscaper, blood donor, carpenter’s helper, railroad man, phone operator, travel agent’s assistant, furniture mover, word processor, travel writer, bartender, yoga instructor, film critic, counterman, music critic, caterer, technical writer, editor, script consultant, and professor. He’s held the last position for twenty years, teaching writing and contemporary culture in New York University’s Global Liberal Studies Program, in New York, London, Florence, and now Shanghai. He’s also an avid scuba diver with over a half-dozen advanced certifications and hundreds of logged dives.

Tim is president and a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop (www.newyorkwritersworshop.com), and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing.  His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous venues, in print and online, including The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, The North American Review, The New York Quarterly, Pank, the Asia Writes Project, and Salt River Review, to name a few. In December 2011, he was featured poet in Saxifrage Press, and his poem, “Blue Surge, with Prokoviev,” in Sea Stories, has been nominated for Best of the Net 2011.“Snow Job,” a short story, appears in Long Island Noir (Akashic Books) in Spring, 2012.  Tim has run writing workshops since 1991, and he's taught or consulted in the US, the UK, Italy, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, and China.

Guohua Wan (Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), is a Professor of Management Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include production planning and scheduling, supply chain management, and management of information technology. He has published more than 40 papers on these topics in such journals as Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, and Computers and Operations Research. He regularly teaches Operations Management, Operations Research and Supply Chain Design and Management to undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. students, and received several teaching awards from his institutions. He currently serves as a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management, the flagship journal of Production and Operations Management Society.