Rate My Professor Xiaoting Li

Li's career includes international fellowships: DAAD fellow at the University of Potsdam (2008-2010), Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Freiburg (2019-2021), and research fellow at the Siebold-Collegium Institute, University of Würzburg (2020). She has received the Martha Cook Piper Research Prize (2021), Faculty of Arts Research Excellence Award (2023), and Dissertation Award from the German Society for Discourse and Interaction Analysis (2010), all at the University of Alberta. Her grants include SSHRC Insight Development Grant for unfinished utterances in Mandarin conversation (2017-2019) and Kule Institute of Advanced Studies funding for intercultural communication among international students. Key publications feature the monograph Multimodality, Interaction, and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation (John Benjamins, 2014); articles such as Leaning and recipient intervening questions in Mandarin conversation (Journal of Pragmatics, 2014), Interpersonal Touch in Conversational Joking (Research on Language and Social Interaction, 2020), and Multimodal assemblies for prefacing a dispreferred response (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021). Li teaches Chinese linguistics, language in Chinese society, and Chinese-English translation; supervises graduate students; and will serve as editor for the Journal of Chinese Language and Discourse starting in 2026. She has acted as interim Associate Dean of Research and Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Arts.