Jennifer Liu came to Harvard in 2011 as the Director of the Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. As Director, she is responsible for recruiting, training, and supervising about 24 teachers who offer 20-22 language courses annually to approximately 700 students. She has co-taught content-based language courses, including “Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Literature,” “The Greatest Chinese Novel,” “Life and Death in Late Imperial China,” “Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory,” in addition to a graduate pedagogy course and all levels of Chinese language courses. She has worked in language pedagogy for 37 years, with research focusing on pedagogical and curricular issues, particularly in teacher training, program development, and instructional design. Her publications include “The Effects of Tone Training on Tone Perception Accuracy in Chinese Language Classrooms” (2019), and a series of textbooks: Encounters I-II: A Cognitive Approach to Advanced Chinese (2010), Connections I-II: A Cognitive Approach to Intermediate Chines” (2004), and Interactions I-II: A Cognitive Approach to Beginning Chinese (1998). Prior to Harvard, she was a tenured full professor at Indiana University (1992-2011) and a founding director of its Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy and Chinese Flagship Center (2008-2011), receiving about $3 million in funding during 2008-2011. She was President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association from 2006 to 2007 and served as Chair of the SAT Chinese Test Development Committee from 2014 to 2017. She received an All-University Distinguished Teaching Award from Indiana University in 1999.