Huiwen Li

Continuing Associate Professor of Chinese

Primary Academic Program: Asian Studies

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Literature

Biography: Huiwen Li is an educator, researcher, Chinese calligrapher, and poet. His teaching and research focus on Chinese language and culture, pedagogy, and teacher competency, with particular emphasis on character etymology, oracle bone inscriptions, and calligraphy. He has published extensively in both books and scholarly journals. At Bard, he teaches courses in Chinese language, calligraphy, and poetry, and has mentored student research on pedagogy, musical instruments depicted in Dunhuang murals, China’s character simplification movement, and the real estate market.



Li’s calligraphy has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, and he has composed hundreds of classical Chinese poems. He has received numerous awards for his achievements in poetry, calligraphy, and curriculum design. He is Honorary President and former President of the American Society of Shufa Calligraphy Education and has also served as Chief Reviewer for a classical Chinese poetry journal and Chief Editor of a Chinese language teaching journal. He is the author/coauthor of articles in publications including Confucius Studies, Frontiers in Psychology, Teaching Chinese in International Contexts, Journal of Overseas Chinese Education, Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology, and Journal of Research on Chinese Teaching, among others.



BA, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China; MA, University of Pittsburgh; EdD, Duquesne University; PhD Candidate, Cleveland State University. At Bard since 2021.
Phone: 845-758-7834
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Location: Fairbairn
Office: 307