Wang Ling is an associate professor and master’s supervisor at the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University. She is also a research fellow at China Center for Language Planning and Policy Studies under Department of Language and Information, Ministry of Education. She serves as the deputy director of the Department of Linguistics at the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University, and is responsible for the Master’s program in Chinese International Education and the majors of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. From 2016 to 2019, she served as the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at Emory University in the United States, and from 2013 to 2014, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His main research interests are sociolinguistics, urban language survey, and language planning. In recent years, he has presided over more than ten projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Social Science Fund, and the Ministry of Education’s Philosophy and Social Science projects. He has also participated in numerous research projects, including those funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the National Social Science Fund’s major projects, the National Language Commission’s “13th Five-Year Plan” key projects, and others. He has published two monographs and contributed to multiple textbooks. He has also published over 30 papers in various core journals, such as Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Sciences, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, and others.

Contact information: njuwangling@nju.edu.cn.