YU Hui, Professor of School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University. She got her Ph.D. in linguistics from Sun Yat-sen University in 2001. She completed her postdoctoral research in Beijing Normal University and has since been teaching in the English Department. She serves as Vice Chair of China Association of Functional Linguistics, Secretary general of China Association of Stylistics, Standing member of Council of China Association of English-Chinese Discourse Analysis and China Association of Ecolinguistics. She has published extensively in areas including genre analysis (Discourse as genre: Arresting semiotics in research paper abstracts, Henan University Press 2003; Essentials to genre analysis, Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 2018, Working with genre - Semiotics in academic settings, Springer forthcoming), systemic functional linguistics (Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory, description and application, co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Wang Bo and Ma Yuanyi, Routledge 2026; Explorations in Systemic Functional Linguistics, co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Springer 2026；Thompson, G. 2026. Introducing Functional Grammar (Yu Hui, Song Jinge & Wang Le, Trans.). Commercial Press. Original work published 2013), genre typology (research grant by Ministry of Education: A corpus-based study of genre typology), academic and scientific writing and knowledge structure (research grant by Ministry of Education: A comparative study of knowledge structure across different educational discourses). She is currently undertaking a translation project of A History of Chinese Grammar by Wang Li, supported by The National Social Science Fund of China.