Her research focus is motivation and persistence for learning Chinese as a second/foreign language. She teaches Chinese language courses at Duke Kunshan.
She is a journal reviewer for K-12 Chinese Language Teaching and Foreign Language Annals. She has also presented papers at international conferences organized by the Chinese Language Teachers Association, the American Association for Applied Linguistics, and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, as well as regional conferences organized by the Florida Educational Research Association and the Florida Foreign Language Association.
Feng has a B.A. in teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language from Sichuan International Studies University and an M.A. in Asian studies from Florida State University (FSU), where she started her Ph.D. in 2014. Before joining Duke Kunshan, she taught Chinese language courses across various proficiency levels in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, FSU, and taught applied linguistics and cross-cultural communications for second/foreign language teachers in the College of Education, FSU.