Henry (Erning) Chen
Doctoral Student
Henry (Erning) Chen is a doctoral student in Language & Literacy Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He is interested in international students’ socialization experience and academic development in US higher education. He is working on using ethnographic methods to study how Chinese international graduate students develop academic and social competences and their relationships to different communities, as well as assisting in projects that study high school students’ learning experience during COVID-19 and their access to college.
Henry’s interests include intercultural communication and using critical discourse analysis to study media discourse and critical media literacy. He was a 2021 Graduate Summer Fellow at BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future for his work in US media’s coverage of China during COVID-19. Previously, Henry taught at the ESL writing program and the Intensive English Program and worked as a research assistant at the English for Professional Purposes Intercultural Center at Penn State University.
Advisor: Yasuko Kanno
Pronouns: he/him/his
In the Media
Education
MA, Penn State University
Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin, China
Courses
LS 626 - Intercultural Communication TL 512 Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Selected Publications
Kanno, Y., David, N., Chen, H., Mullens, I., & Zaff, J.F. (2022). I miss the sound of our bells: Massachusetts high school students reflect on life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Boston University