西南师范大学外语系英语专业硕士，中山大学人类学博士。1992年7月至今任教于汕头大学外文系，曾担任文学、语言学、翻译、文化教学方面的课程教学任务。研究方向：英语教学、比较文学。

Courses taught in Shantou University
1.Introduction to Linguistics
2.Topics in Language, Power and Gender
3.Language and Culture
4.Translation Theories in Practice
5.English Composition II
6.Research Writing
7.Prose and Fiction I
8.Prose and Fiction II
9.Discourse Analysis and Reading
10.Introduction to US Literature
11.Comparative Studies of Chinese and Jewish Cultures

Publications
1.On  Conrad’s Delineation of Desperate Isolation ：A Thematic Approach to An  Outpost of Progress. Journal of Gannan Normal University Press. 2012  (5): 41-45
2.On Conrad’s Thick Descriptions of Isolation: A Thematic Study of Amy Foster. English Square: Academic Studies. 2012(10):30-34
3.From  Slash-and-burn cultivation planters to migrant urban workers: A Study  of the modernized Shezu Community. New Exploration of the Shezhu  Culture.   Fuzhou: Fujian people’s Press. 2012: 375-385.
4.On the Instrumental Extension of Ethnic Identity. Journal of Gannan Normal University Journal. 2009(4).
5.An Anthropological Study of the Spring Couplets in the Shezu Villages. Southwest China Minzu University Press. 2006 (11).
6.Reflections  on Ethnic Group, Nation, Nationality and Other Related Concepts. Du  Shu. (China).Beijing: Shenghuo, Dushu, Xinzhi Sanlian Bookshop.  2005(11):148-153.
7.A Sociolinguistic Study of the Shezu Language. Journal of Shantou University 2004(4): 37-39.
8.Anthropology  and Intercultural Communication. In Zhou, Daming (Ed). 21st Century  Anthropology. Beijing: Minzu Publish House. 2003: 410-415.
9.On  the Attainment- oriented and Test-oriented Teaching Objective of  English language in the Chinese Universities. Journal of Shantou  University 2001(2):77-81.
10.The Influence of Cultural Factures in the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Journal of Shantou University. 1999(15): 62-65.
11.The influence of context in the study of meaning. Language and Philology. 1998(9)
12.Context  and semantic study. Systemic, Pragmatic, and Cognitive Function of  Language. Chongqing: Chongqing University Press. 1998.
13.On  the Role and Position of Contextual Analysis in Semantic studies.  Linguistics and Philology (China Renda Social Sciences Information  Center. 1998 (9):111-116.
14.On  the Metaphorical Extension of the Concept of OVER. Journal of Foreign  Languages. Shanghai International Studies University. 1998 (6):27-31.
15.On College English Teachers’ Qualification. Journal of Shantou University. 1997 (13):49-53.

Monograph and Co-compiled works
1.Chen,  Huayu. A South China Shezu Community: Research into Sociocultural  Changes of the She Ethnicity. Beijing: Social Science Press, 2014.
2.Chen, Huayu and Li, Jie. English Grammar. Qingdao: Qingdao Marine University Press. 2001
3.Li, Jie and Chen, Huayu. English Communication. Qingdao: Qingdao Marine University Press. 2001