Dr. Christensen is an Associate Professor of Chinese. He received his B.A. from Brigham Young University in Chinese with a minor in International Relations in 1988. He received his M.A. in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1994, both from Ohio State University in the field of Chinese linguistics. He spends time each summer lecturing in a teacher training program for teachers of East Asian languages at the Ohio State University. His research interests include Chinese language pedagogy, materials development, discourse analysis, and Chinese poetry. Dr. Christensen is also the Chinese Flagship Program Curriculum Director.

Recent Publications

• “你好 and Greeting Strategies in Mandarin Chinese.” Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Vol. 41, No. 3, October 2006, pp. 19-34. 
• Performed Culture: An Approach to East Asian Language Pedagogy. Columbus, OH: Foreign Language Publications, National East Asian Languges Resource Center. 2006. (Coauthored with J Paul Warnick)
• A Performance-based Pedagogy for Communicating in Cultures: Training Teachers for East Asian Languages.. Columbus, OH: Foreign Language Publications, National East Asian Languages Resource Center. 2002. (Coauthored with Mari Noda).
• "Anaphoric reference in spoken and written Chinese narrative discourse." Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 28.2, June 2000, pp. 303-336.
• Spoken Cantonese: Presentation and Context (Foreign Languge Publications, 1996)