刘晓艺博士,2010年毕业于美国亚利桑那大学东亚系,主修晚帝国史。她的博士论文为“衣食和行:《醒世姻缘传》里的明代物质生活”。她的其它研究兴趣包括但不限于:中国女子教育史,民国史,翻译及当代电影。她长期为澳门利(玛窦) 氏学社所创的中英双语季刊《神州交流》做翻译,内容广泛涉及当代中外社会与文化。
刘晓艺现全职任教于北亚利桑那大学国际语言文化系,教授中国语言和文化。
Xiaoyi Liu graduated from The University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in 2010 majoring Late Imperial Chinese History. Her dissertation is titled Clothing, Food and Travel: Ming Material Culture as Reflected in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan. Her other research interests include, but are not limited to: history of Chinese women’s education, Republican Era history, translation and contemporary movies. She has been for a long time working as a translator for the bilingual Chinese-English quarterly, Chinese Cross Currents, founded by the Macau Ricci Institute, cover a wide range of topics and affairs in contemporary society and culture, both in the Chinese world and abroad.
Xiaoyi Liu currently works for the Department of Global Languages & Cultures, Northern Arizona University as a full-time faculty, teaching Chinese language and culture.