Transnational migration, international students, identity, intercultural communication, and additional language acquisition.

Xinhang Hermione Hu is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Linguistics and Language Education program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is interested in transnational migration, international students, identity, intercultural communication, and additional language acquisition. Xinhang earned her bachelor’s degree in Linguistics (minor in Korean) at Boston University and two master’s degrees in Intercultural Communication and Education Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. She speaks Chinese, English, Korean, and Spanish. She is currently working on naming practices of international students and the professional identity of transnational language teachers.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like to collaborate on projects close to my interests!

Contact: xhhu@umd.edu

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinhang-hu/

Dean's Fellowship (2023-2024)

 

Merit Scholarship. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (2020, 2022)

Dean's List, Boston University College of Arts & Sciences (2017-2020)

Conference Presentations:

Rolstad, K., Obiri-Yeboah, M. & Hu, X. H. (2023, November). Promoting Language Variation in Schools [Paper presentation]. Maryland TESOL, Virtual.

 

Travel fundings/grants:

Multilingual Research Center (MRC) Travel Fund (Maryland TESOL; October 2023)

 

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, MD)

TLPL446: Language Variation and Multilingualism in Elementary Classrooms (Instructional Assistant, Fall 2023)