Hsinmei (May) Lin
Office: ALD 261
hsinmei.lin@edmonds.edu
Ph.D English Literature, University of Washington, Seattle; MA English Literature,
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan; BA English Language and Literature,
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan
Classes usually taught: ENGL &101: Comp I, ENGL& 102: Comp II, ENGL& 111: Intro to Literature, HUM 101:
Studies in American Culture
Service: Student Voice Group (co-chair), AI in Pedagogy Workgroup (co-chair), New Edmonds
Literary Magazine (co-adviser), Taiwanese Student Club (faculty adviser)
I was born and raised in Taiwan, where I obtained both my bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in English Language and Literature. In 2014, I moved to Seattle to attend
the English Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. I earned my doctorate in
2019, with specializations in 19th-century American poetry, 20th-century Sinophone
poetry, world literature, translation studies, critical animal studies, and environmental
humanities. I also have a passion for translation/interpretation and am currently
working on a Chinese-English translation project of a poetry collection.
The classroom is my happy place—as a teacher, I feel energized and inspired when learning
with and from my students. My pedagogical practices focus on collaborative learning,
school-life connection, and community building. I design my curricula to be inclusive
of multilingual and multicultural populations by approaching writing as an act of
identity-(trans)formation, relation-building, and collective creation. When teaching
both writing and literature courses, I encourage students to create multimodal, interdisciplinary,
and exploratory projects that enable them to establish a personal, unconventional
world with their own unique perspectives.
When I am not teaching, reading, or writing, you can find me exploring the PNW outdoors
with my partner and our dogs, gardening, researching new dishes to cook and different
ways to brew a nice cup of coffee, or simply soaking up the sun (if the weather permits!).