Jing Hu completed her graduate studies in Linguistics and Chinese at Peking University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to UPenn, she was a Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale-NUS College. Prior to that, she taught Chinese at Smith College for almost a decade. She served as the Program Director and Language Director of Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL) in Beijing for three summers and was advisor for Oral History Projects for the Chinese Overseas Flagship Program of the American Councils for International Education. She has given numerous presentations and has many publications as an author, translator and co-editor on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Chinese literature and film, and translations.