Guofang Li
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Guofang Li is a professor of education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children.[1][2] Li is the author of over 100 journal articles and over a dozen books on topics related to literacy, teaching, and diversity and equity issues.[1][3]
Li was born and raised in rural China.[4] She completed an undergraduate degree at Hubei University and a M.A. degree in applied linguistics at Wuhan University.[4][5] She earned a PhD in curriculum studies from the University of Saskatchewan in 2000.[6]
Career
Li was an assistant professor at Buffalo State College, a State University of New York campus, from 2001 through 2006.[5] She joined the faculty in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University in 2006.[5] In 2016, she was announced as a new Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children at the UBC's Faculty of Education.[2]