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Portrait of Jiayao wang

Honor Society® member

Jiayao wang

teaching assistant at University of South Carolina

  • Comparative Literature
  • columbia, SC

Member since May 2019

Education

  • University of South Carolina

    Comparative Literature

    2014 – 2019

Honors and awards

  • Li-Ching Graduate Fellowship Ceny Walker Institute University of South Carolina

    award for scholarship and research in Late Imperial Chinese Book culture and Printing Culture

  • Carroll T. and Edward B. Cantey, Jr. Fellowship in Liberal Arts Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of South Carolina

    award for literary disucssion and studies on a women writers of China at the turn of the twenienth century

  • Stanford East Asian Library Collection Travel Grant Center for East Asian Studies Stanford University

    awarded for research travel on late sixteenth century printing culture and rare books

  • Ceny Walker Graduate Fellowship Walker Institute University of South Carolina

    awarded for study on the book culture, women writers and literary culture in Modern China

  • Carroll T. and Edward B. Cantey, Jr. Fellowship in Liberal Arts Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of South Carolina

    awarded for writing project of my dissertation on literary games in early twentienth century

Goals and interests

Career goal

My life goal is to devoted to liberal arts education with my scholarship and teaching pedagogy in Chinese Language, literature and culture. My professional goal is a college professor teaching Chinese languages and literature.

Graduate school interests

To achieve my professional goal, I worked as a research assistant at the Teaching for Excellence at University of South Carolina. I have organized workshops, panels, discussion boards, online platforms, and lectures that provides the disciplinary-based instructional pedagogy and teaching approaches. As a scholars of Chinese Literature and Culture, I chaired the Graduate Student Association for Asian Studies. This society created a platform where scholars, students and teachers can share their recent research, scholarship and studies. As an teacher of Chinese language , I organize co-curricular and extra-curricular activities to kindle students’ broader interests, such as Spring Festival Gala, Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration and Chinese Cooking Night.

Outside the classroom

Yoga, Running, Swimming

Experience

  • teaching assistant

    University of South Carolina

    Jul 2013 – Apr 2019

Volunteering

  • Translator

    Columbia International Festival 2019

    Apr 2019

  • Organization assistant

    Indie Grits Film Festival

    Apr 2015

  • Global Ambassador

    Thinking Globally Program, Office of International Student Service, University of South Carolina

    Mar 2014 – Sep 2014

Languages

  • Chinese (Simplified) Advanced
  • Spanish (Spain) Intermediate

Additional information