Shuming Lu

Shuming Lu received his B.A. in 1982 in English at Yangzhou University, and did his postgraduate work (1984-1986) at East China Normal University, Shanghai. He had taught at Yangzhou University for 6 years before pursuing his doctoral studies in intercultural communication at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Since 1997, Dr. Lu has been working as a professor of intercultural communication, deputy chair of the Speech Communication Department (since 2000), and director of the CUNY-BC China program at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College.

In the past five years, Professor Lu also served as Principal of Huaxia Chinese School in Edison, New Jersey (1998-2001), and as chair of the Board of Trustees of EverBright Chinese School, Edison New Jersey (2001-2004).

Dr. Lu’s research interests are ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, international communication, and Chinese culture and communication, with a particular focus on interactions between Chinese and Americans.

Dr. Lu is currently also serving as President of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States, and as vice President of the Association of Chinese Communication Studies, and as a Board member of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York.