Chinese Culture, Literature and Art History
Ph.D. of Comparative Literature, MA of Comparative Literature, MA of Art History, MA of English Literature
modern and contemporary Chinese lit erature, cinema, theater and cultural history nineteenth century British and French literature and art aesthe tic m odernity, a rtistic r eflexivity , comedy, female writing, and postsocialist condition
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Universi ty of C alifornia, Riverside, September 2012 Dissertation : Performing Perversion: Decadence in Twentieth Century Chinese Literature M.A., Comparative Literature, University of California, Riverside, May 2009 M.A. Thesis : “Self Ori entalization as a Discursive Trope: A Comparative Study of Sarojini Naidu, Dai Sijie and Zhaxi Dawa” Graduate student, Inter...
Assistant Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies, August 2014-present: School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University Affiliated Faculty in Comparative Literature Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies Assistant Professor of Chinese, August 2012 August 2014: Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Arkansas Affiliated Faculty in Asian Studies
Chinese language and modern Chinese literature, film and culture.
Pragmatics, Chinese Linguistics, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
MA in German in 1986 from Tongji University, Shanghai, China Ph.D in Linguistics from Purdue University in 1993
Joined the Purdue faculty in 1994 as an Assistant Professor of Chinese
Chinese Language; Classical Chinese Literature
University of Washington Seattle, Washington: Ph.D. Completed July 1991 Field exams: Classical Chinese Grammar (with Dr. Jerry Norman), the Classical Short Story (with Dr. Wang Chin-hsien), Six Dynasties Poetry (with Dr. David R. Knechtges). Tang Poetry (with Dr. Wang Chin-hslen) Master of Arts degree in Asian Languages and Literat11re awarded 1983 University of California at Santa Cruz Santa C...
Purdue University: Associate professor in the School of Languages and Cultures. Appointed assistant professo, August 1991. University of Washington: TA and RA in Department of Asian Languages and Literatures. Research Assistant Research Assistant for Dr.Wang Chin-hsi en Helped to compile mat,rials for a bibliography of Tang poetry.