Wendy Li's research interests include second language socialization, multilingual and multimodal literacy practices, English-medium instruction and transnational higher education, and language teacher identity, agency, emotions. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include English for academic purposes and multimodal composition. She recently co-edited the book, "International Students' Multilingual Literacy Practices: An Asset-based Approach to Understanding Academic Discourse Socialization" (Multilingual Matters, 2022).

Her research focuses on student engagement and motivation in language learning, inclusive language teaching, and professional development for teachers. She has taught English for academic purposes at a transnational university, worked with both typically developing students and students with special needs in K-12 school settings, served as a research assistant in federally funded research programs, and has received Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching grants for educational innovations.

His primary research interests are gamification in language learning, and curriculum and material development. Li has a Ph.D. in East Asian language and literature with a focus on Chinese pedagogy from Ohio State University. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he taught Chinese at Ohio State University and Kenyon College.

His teaching and research interests include comparative literature in Hebrew and Spanish, literary theory, transnational writing and world literature. His forthcoming book, "A Permanent Beginning: Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020), deals with the Russian imperial context of early modern Hebrew and Yiddish letters. His current book project, "A World of Literature: Jorge Luis Borges and the Problems of Literary Marginality," is a study of marginality and mysticism as literary tropes in the writing of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Lewis has a B.A.

He is a molecular geneticist whose research focuses on understanding the epigenetic regulation of chromatin switches in response to environmental cues using the plant model organism, Arabidopsis thaliana.

His research focuses on the determinants and impacts of Chinese economic engagement abroad. More specifically, he researches the political and economic determinants of China's development finance and investment flows in the developing world, and how these in turn affect development. At Duke Kunshan, he teaches in the fields of international development and international political economy. His academic work has been published in Energy Policy and Resources Policy, and he has contributed to multiple World Bank reports as a consultant.

His research focus is at the intersection of environmental management, environmental engineering, and sustainability science. He is especially interested in how we can sustainably transition our approaches to water management (e.g., reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enabling resource recovery, improving water security). His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include water, energy and sustainability. Lam has a B.Eng. in chemical and environmental engineering (with a minor in liberal studies), an M.Phil.

Selina Lai-Henderson's scholarship is at the heart of transnational American Studies, where she locates works of American literature in twentieth-century China and in translation. The author of Mark Twain in China (Stanford UP, 2015), Lai-Henderson's current book-in-progress interrogates complex shifts of Afro-Asian discourses across the literary and cultural landscape of late Qing China through the Maoist era.

Kwok's research lies at the intersection among neuroscience, behavior, and psychology. He is head of the Laboratory of Phylo-Cognition and his research team studies the neural bases of episodic memory, metacognition, and other related higher cognitive processes in the primate species. Elucidation of such intricate brain/mind/behavior relationships is attained by armamentaria of methods including multimodal neuroimaging, in vivo electrophysiology, neuromodulatory methods, state-of-the-art behavioral paradigms and computational techniques.