Fan is an associate professor with a doctoral degree. She works on discourse analysis, critical rhetoric, and international Chinese language education.
Courses Offered: Introduction to Discourse Studies, International Chinese Pragmatic Theory and Practice, Contemporary Chinese Language, etc
Projects: Subproject on the Relationship Between Language and National Identity, a key research project of the Ministry of Education, 2019; Research on the Discourse Path and Strategy of Chinese Image Dissemination in Chinese Textbooks of Countries along the Belt and Road, a general project of National Social Science, 2016; Establishment and Communication of China's National Image in International Chinese Language Education: A Study based on Chinese Teaching Materials for Foreigners, a Youth Project of the Ministry of Education of the 12th Five-Year Plan of National Education Science, 2014, etc.
Academic Achievements: She has published one monograph Reanalysis of Command Speech Acts, Shanghai Social Science Press, 2013; and more than 30 papers, 17 of which were published in CSSCI journals such as Journal of Social Sciences and Applied Linguistics, including From Imagination to Knowledge: The Path of Public Space Discourse and China in Knowledge Mapping, Functional Dimension of Chinese Textbook Discourse Practice and the Communication of China's Image, Textbook Narratives: Self-Cognition, World Picture and National Image, etc.
Honors & Awards: 1. First Prize of the 2019 Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scholars of the Rhetoric Society of China (2019); 2. Second Prize of the Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scholars of the Shanghai Chinese Association (2018); 3. First Prize of the 2015 Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scholars of the Rhetoric Society of China (2015); 4. Second Prize of the 2nd Shanghai Outstanding Paper Award for Young Language Scholars (2014)
