Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
School of Education

Weijia Li

Clinical Professor, Director of Global Higher Education MS Program

wli255@wisc.edu

(608) 263-6784

253 F Education Building

1000 Bascom Mall

Madison, WI 53706

Li, Weijia

Download CV   Global Higher Education MS Program   Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic   Center for East Asian Studies   Center for German and European Studies  

Education

  • PhD Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, 2009

Select Publications

  • Li, W. (2020). ‘Consuming’ China: Images of China in German and American Television Advertisements of the 21st Century. German Studies Review, 43(1), 107-126.
  • Li, W. (2018). Synthesis and Transtextuality —The Jewish Re-invention of Chinese Mythical Stories in ‘Shanghai Ghetto’. In Kristy Boney and Jennifer Marston William (Ed.), Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond (pp. 140-151).
  • Li, W. (2014). Otherness in Solidarity: The Collaboration between Chinese and German Left-wing Activists in the Weimar Republic. In Qinna Shen and Martin Rosenstock (Ed.), Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia (pp. 73-93). New York: Berghahn.
  • Li, W. (2011). Braveness in Non-Action: The Taoist Strategy of Survival in Bertolt Brecht’s Schweyk and Anna Seghers’ Transit. Brecht Yearbook, 36, 106-122.

Select Presentations

  • Li, W. A German-Jewish ‘University’ in China during World War II — An Unique Case of Transnational Refugee Education. Lecture presented at the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, Madison, WI.
  • Li, W. Foreign Language Pedagogy in American Higher Education: Past and Present from a Cross-Cultural Perspective. Lecture presented at the Invited Lecture, Tianjin, China.
  • Li, W. Strategies and Assessment of Globalization of Higher Education. Lecture presented at the Invited Lecture, Harbin, China.
  • Li, W. German Undergraduate Programs at American Universities and Colleges: From a Cross-cultural Perspective. Lecture presented at the Invited Lecture, Beijing, China.
  • Li, W. Adult Education in Shanghai Jewish Refugee Community 1938-1951. Lecture presented at the Invited Lecture at George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, Madison, WI.
  • Li, W. Comprehensive Internationalization of American Higher Education — What does it mean for Chinese Higher Education? Lecture presented at the Invited Lecture, Chongqing, China.
  • Li, W. Internationalization of Higher Education in the US — Research and Practice. Lecture presented at the Invited Lecture, Chongqing, China.
  • Li, W. A Mirror from the ‘Other World’ – German Programs at U.S. Colleges and Universities. Lecture presented at the Invited Lecture, Beijing, China.

Select Awards and Honors

  • Mentor of the Year Award, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
  • Mentor of the Year Award, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
  • Mentor of the Year Award, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017