- BA degree in English Literature and Language (UCL)
- MA degree in English Renaissance Literature (York)
- Doctorate in English and Related Literature (York)
I taught for a total of 5 years at Shandong University in the People's Republic of China before coming to York St John University in 2004 to work in the Department of English Literature. I have a First Class BA degree in English Literature and Language from UCL, and an MA degree with Distinction in English Renaissance Literature from the University of York, specialising in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and its sources.
My main research area is in Intercultural Shakespeare Performance and I am currently working on late communist, post-communist and post-modern appropriations of Shakespeare's Hamlet in China, Poland and the Arab world. I have published and presented at international conferences on the work of Lin Zhaohua, Jan Klata, Monika Pęcikiewicz and Sulayman Al-Bassam among others. I was included as one of the 11 York based researchers cited in the successful bid for York to become a UNESCO City of Media Arts 2015. I have taken part in the Erasmus Teaching Mobility Programme.
I am engaged with the York International Shakespeare Festival, hosting 2 Popular Shakespeare events during the inaugural Festival in 2015, and am involved in the latest festival. I have organised various international pedagogical and cultural events at York St John University. These have included China Week in 2008, coinciding with local and national events around the Beijing Olympics, and events during International Weeks. I am also a founding supporter of the Shakespeare in Performance series of conferences attached to the International Shakespeare Festival, Craiova, Romania (since 2010).
I am interested in broader issues of diversity and inclusion and have completed Stonewall training for the University. I am also interested in dyslexia and dyspraxia.
