Scholarship and Biography
Xiwen Lu (陆熙雯), Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University. She currently serves as the Director of the Undergraduate Chinese Program, the Co-director and Graduate Advisor of the Chinese Language and Culture Master Program, and the Vice Chair of the Foreign Language Oversight Committee. She is also a board member of the New England Chinese Language Teachers Association. Since joining Brandeis University in 2008, she has taught Chinese language courses at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels, and has also offered courses for the Chinese Language and Culture Master Program such as Practical Modern Chinese Teaching Methods and Chinese Teaching in the United States.
Her main research directions and language teaching research activities involve language teaching on online platforms, learning sciences, and second language acquisition. She has published several papers in core journals and conferences both domestically and internationally. In 2019, she co-authored the book "Cases of Multimedia-Assisted Chinese Teaching," and her primary-authored first-year textbook “The Journeys (启程)” was published by Vista Press in 2023. She has received multiple research grants within the university, such as the Theodore and Jane Norman Award (2021-2023) and the Brandeis University Teaching Innovation Grant (2019-2020).