Guofang Li is an associate professor of second language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan in 2000 and was post-doctoral fellow (SSHRC) at the University of British Columbia during 2000-2001. Her research interests focused on three interrelated areas of concerns: a) Asian immigrant children's home literacy practices; b) cultural conflicts and educational dissensions between Asian immigrant parents and mainstream schools/teachers regarding literacy learning and instruction; and c) Asian children's social processes of learning, especially the impact of the "model minority" myth, social class, and cultural identity on language and literacy development.

Li’s major publications include three books, “East is east, west is west”? Home literacy, culture, and schooling (Peter Lang, 2002), Culturally Contested Pedagogy: Battles of Literacy and Schooling between Mainstream Teachers and Asian Immigrant Parents (SUNY Press, 2006), “Strangers” of the Academy: Asian Women Scholars in Higher Education (Stylus, 2006),  and a monograph entitled, Asian-American education across the Class Line: A Multi-site Report (GSE Publications/SUNY Press, 2005).

In 2008, Li received the following award: Early Career Award, Division G: Social Context of Education, American Educational Research Association, 2008.