Li Mengyu , Ph.D., a professor and graduate student tutor of the College of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Communication, Ocean University of China，has been a visiting scholar in the faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, in the Institute for Intercultural Communication at the University of Louisville and the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. She has been invited to attend many international conferences in US, UK, Japan and Singapore etc and act as the section chair and discussant. She was also selected as the paper reviewer of the International journal Intercultural Communication Studies. Her academic interests include comparative literature and Intercultural communication and her main teaching courses are Intercultural Communication. The courses she teaches are “Foreign Literature”, “Comparative Literature”, “Intercultural Communication”, and “The Appreciation of English Poetry” etc.

She is the author, coauthor and translator of 8 books including  The Comparative Study of Shen Congwen and Faulkner’s Novels in Multidimensional Perspectives, Intercultural Communication (English book) ,Communicating Intercultually (English book) and The New Textbook of Western Criticism etc. She has published more than thirty academic papers in Chinese authoritative and core journals such as Literary Review, Chinese Comparative Literature, Foreign Literature Studies as well as the international Intercultural Communication Studies and China Media Research (published simultaneously in mainland China and the United States). Among them, some papers have been collected as photo copy resources of people ' s university and Xinhua Digest .She has also undertaken ten research projects, including a National-sponsored Social Sciences Funding Program  “On William Faulkner’s influences on the Chinese New Period Novels” (a project approved by Chinese National Social Science Research ),“The Intercultural Communication Study on the Chinese and Western Cultures ”（a key project approved by the Department of Culture of Shandong Province in 2009）. She has been awarded nine prizes, including the First Prize Winner of the Qingdao Social Science Research Award and the Second Prize Winner of Shandong Social Science Research Award as well as other academic prizes.