Dr. Han Luo is an associate professor of Chinese and head of the Chinese Language Program at Lafayette College, United States of America (USA). Prior to joining Lafayette, she served as a lecturer in Chinese at Northwestern University in Chicago and taught English and linguistics at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. She holds two doctoral degrees: a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education with a specialization in Chinese language pedagogy from the University of Texas at Austin (2011), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing Foreign Studies University (2007). Her research interests include Chinese linguistics, cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language anxiety, heritage language education, online intercultural exchange, and foreign language pedagogy.