Academic Degree::

Master of Arts

Academic Rank:

: Assistant Professor

Gender：

: Female

Email:

zeromom@163.com

Courses Taught:

: Introduction to European Culture

Foundations of Western Culture

New York City Excitements and Anxieties

Comprehensive English

Intermediate Listening

Advanced Listening

Research Interests:

: Aesthetics

Comparative literature

Professional Experience:

6/2001-8/2003   Teaching Assistant of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English Department, Xiamen University, China

8/2003-7/2008   Lecturer of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English   Department, Xiamen University, China

8/2008- present  Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures,

Xiamen University, China

Educational Background:

9/1994-9/1998   BA  (thesis achievement A) in English Education, Hangzhou University, China

9/1998-6/2001  MA (thesis achievement A) in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Zhejiang University, China

7/2006-9/2006   Summer School in Teaching English as a Second Language and British Journalism, The University of Westminster, UK

9/2010-9/2011   Visiting Scholar to Center for Ancient Studies, New York University, U.S.

2/2016-11/2016  Postgraduate Diploma in English (with distinction), The University of Auckland, NZ

3/2017-present   PhD candidate in English, The University of Auckland, NZ

Publications:

Press

1. Xiaojun Ding. A Chinese Student's Gourmet Guide to European Culture. Xiamen University Press, 2014.

2. Xiaojun Ding. "An Interview of Richard Schechner and Jinxing Shi,"in Aesthetic Performance and Social Performance. Edited by Richard Schechner and Huizhu Sun, 183-194, Beijing: Culture and Art Publishing House, 2014. (in Chinese)

3. Shiyi Fu, Xiaojun Ding, et al. English Intensive Reading (Book 4). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2008.

Journal

1. Junjie Wu, Junsong Zhang, Xiaojun Ding, Rui Li, Changle Zhou. The Effects of Music on Brain Functional Networks: A Network Analysis. Neuroscience, 250: 49-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.06.021.Oct 2013, SCI 3, Impact Factor=3.122.

2. Changle Zhou, Wei You, Xiaojun Ding. An Automatic Song Poetry Generation: Algorithm and Its Realization. Journal of Software, Issue 3, 2010. (in Chinese)

3. Weina Zhu, Junjun Zhang, Xiaojun Ding, Changle Zhou, etc.. Crossmodal Effects of Guqin and Piano Music on Selective Attention: An Event-related Potential Study.Neuroscience Letters, 466, 21-26, 2009.

4. Yun Yang, Changle Zhou, Xiaojun Ding, Jiawei Chen, and Xiaodong Shi. Metaphor Recognition: CHMETA, A Pattern-based System. Computational Intelligence, Volume 25 Issue 4, Pages 265 - 301, 2009.

5. Xiaojun Ding, Xinting Ye, Changle Zhou. Coding and Compilatory Method in the Transnotation Jianzipu of Qin Zither. Musicology in China, Issue 2, 2008. (in Chinese)

6. Xiaojun Ding.The Stimulation and Maintenance of Class Dynamics. Xiamen University Journal, 2008. (in Chinese)

7. Xiaojun Ding. Meta-Anaphora Categorization of Dialogues from Wei Cheng. Mind and Computation, Issue 3, 2007. (in Chinese)

8. Xiaojun Ding, Changle Zhou. A Neurological Study on Aesthetic Process and Its Significance to Aesthetics. Psychological Science, Issue 5, 2006. (in Chinese)

9. Xuelan Liu, Xiaojun Ding, Jing Xiao. Studies of American Poetry and Drama in China in the Tenth Five-Year (2000—2004). Foreign Literature Studies, Issue. 3, 2005. (in Chinese)

10. Changle Zhou, Xiaojun Ding. Difficulties and Countermeasures for Machine Understanding of Chinese: A Viewpoint of the Sense-group Dynamics. Modern Foreign Languages, Vol.23, Issue 2, 2000. (in Chinese)

11. Xiaojun Ding. Preliminary Investigation into Pragmatic Ambivalence in Wei Cheng. Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Sciences), Issue 5, 1999. (in Chinese)

Research Projects:

1.  Informational Masking in a Noisy Environment. National Science foundation, No. 31200769，1/2013-12/2015. (member)

2. A Computational Model of Music Creativity and Its Implementation Introduced by the Mechanism of Aesthetic Awareness. National Science Foundation, NO.60975076, 1/ 2010-12/2012 (member)

3. The Effect of Guqin Music on Children with Regard to Creativity. State Social Science and Planning Foundation, NO. 2008C010, 2008-2009. (in charge)

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