Ph.D., Chinese Literature, 1998, The Ohio State University
M.A., Chinese Literature, 1991, The Ohio State University
M.A., English and American Literature, 1986, Purdue University
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20th-Century Chinese Literature and Film
20th-Century Taiwan Literature and Film
Translation of Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Drama from China and Taiwan
Chinese Language Pedagogy
Introduction to the Cultures of China, Japan, and Korea
2nd-Year Intermediate Mandarin I
2nd-Year Intermediate Mandarin II
Contemporary Chinese Cinemas
Issues in Modern Taiwan Literature & Cinema
20th-Century Chinese Literature in Translation
Modern Chinese Poetry in Translation
“Couching Race in the Global Era: Intra-Asian Racism in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” Solicited by Guest Editor for publication in Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese [現代中文文學學報]: Special Issue: “Center and Periphery in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture” [專號: 中心與邊緣]. (Forthcoming: 2010). 1-50.
“Couching Race in the Global Era: Intra-Asian Racism in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” In The Status of Theory in Contemporary Chinese Film and Visual Culture. Jason C. Kuo, Editor. {Authorized reprint of Journal Article, solicited by Jason C. Kuo} Cambria Press Inc. (Forthcoming).
“A Brief Response to Wendy Larson’s ‘Zhang Yimou’s Hero: dismantling the myth of cultural power.’” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 3:1 (June 2009): 83-88.
“Introduction.” Co-authored with Julia C. Lin. 20th-Century Chinese Women’s Poetry: An Anthology. Edited and Translated by Julia C. Lin. M. E. Sharpe (2009): xvii-lxvi.
"Submerged Ecology and Depth Psychology in Wushan yunyu: Aesthetic Insight into National Development." In Chinese Ecocinema In the Age of Environmental Challenge. Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi, Editors. Hong Kong University Press (2009): 57-72.
“Chapter I: Abreaction Through Artistic Mediation: An Introduction to Lu Xun’s Aesthetic Praxis.” In Unsettling Art: A Study of Lu Xun’s Yecao (Sample Chapter and Prospectus Currently under submission). 1-49.
Review: “Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture (Sheldon H. Lu).” Journal of Asian Studies (67.3 August 2008). 1067-1068.
Liu Kexiang: “A Prose Perspective” (“散文觀”). Translation solicited by editors for: The Literature of Taiwan: A Sourcebook. Michelle Yeh & Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang, Editors. (Forthcoming).
Zhang Zao (张枣): “Farewell (to the) Fortress of Solitude”（告别孤独堡); “A Year of Letters” (春秋来信). Translations solicited by editors for: National Endowment of the Arts Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry. Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Lin, Editors. Copper Canyon Press (Forthcoming).
Zhu Fengming: “Meteor Account”; Zhu Yongliang: “Memory of a Moment’s Bliss”; Hu Dong: “Bodhidharma Hesitates on the Banks of the Yellow River”, “Curing a Cough”; Han Dong: “Essay Fragment”; Song Lin : “No Sleep”, “The Pier Reaching Out To the Sea”, “En Route”; Yu Jian: “Fragments” (Selections); Zeng Hong: “Imaginary Existence”. Dirty Goat #24 (Forthcoming, February 2011).
Li Longyun: “Man and Wilderness” (1985). In Xiaomei Chen, ed. Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama. (Forthcoming).
Lu Xun: “Foreword to Yecao” (野草題辭 Yecao Tici) / “The Beggars” (求乞者 Qiuqizhe). In Stephen Edgar Bradbury et. al., Editors, Prose Poetry: East Asia. (Forthcoming).
Liu Kexiang: “Liu Kexiang: Natural Science Teacher.” In Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar, Editors. Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. W.W. Norton & Co. (2008).
Unsettling Art: A Study of Lu Xun’s Yecao (Currently under submission).
Nature Writing in Contemporary Taiwan: The Essays of Liu Kexiang. (Edited volume of translations, commissioned by the author. In Process.)
The Lens of Culture: Contemporary Subjects in Recent Chinese Films. (Manuscript of contemporary Chinese film interpretations.
