Erli Tang
PhD Student
About Erli Tang
Erli Tang is originally from Shanghai, China. She earned dual BAs with honors in Linguistics and Japanese from Pennsylvania State University and later completed an MA in Computational Linguistics at San Francisco State University. Her undergraduate honors thesis, funded by the NSF, examined the influence of Mandarin on the Shanghainese sound system. For her master’s thesis, she explored how linguistic features shape the construction of belonging among Chinese international students in the U.S.
During her Ph.D., Erli aims to use a hybrid of methods, quantitative and qualitative, to answer social science questions in general. Outside of academics, Erli holds a PADI scuba diving certificate, and enjoys working out, dancing, hiking, reading extensively on poetry and clinical psychology, creative writing, and photography. Erli's proses have been published in literature magazines and newspapers in Shanghai