Mien-hwa Chiang is a senior lecturer in Foreign Languages in the Department of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Penn in year 2000 as
the head of the Chinese Language Program (CLP), after teaching at Harvard University and
Princeton University. As the Director of the CLP, she oversees daily operations of the Chinese
Language Program, curriculum articulation and conducts teacher training at the beginning of
each year. Dr. Chiang has been the Principal Investigator and Director of the STARTALK Penn
High School Chinese Academy since 2006. Her STARTALK project duty includes the
preparation of new proposals, admissions, quality of instruction and budget. She was elected the
President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association in 2006. Her research areas cover
Chinese linguistics, discourse analysis, business Chinese education and language teacher training.
Dr. Chiang received an MA in General Linguistics from Ohio University, a second MA in
Chinese pedagogy and holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics from the Ohio State University.