ANELL Chinese Faculty



Letty Chen	Beata Grant	Robert Hegel	Xia Liang	Judy Mu	Wei Wang	Fengtao Wu

CHINESE SECTION FACULTY

Letty Chen, assistant professor, finished her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University in the summer of 2000. She joins the faculty in 2001 academic year to teach modern and contemporary Chinese literature; she is also interested in Chinese-American women writers. She will play a pivotal role in the integration of the language and undergraduate literature courses while enhancing current strengths in studies of narrative, film, and women writers.
Email: llchen@wustl.edu Office: 124A Busch Hall Phone: (314) 935-5194

Beata Grant, professor, teaches a broad range of courses in literature including undergraduate surveys and upper-level seminars. She regularly teaches courses in religious studies as well: two of her more popular courses are Introduction to Buddhism and Introduction to Asian Religions. Her writings include a long study of the Woman Huang story-cycle, Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih, and several articles on Buddhist nuns and laywomen of the Ming-Qing period. She is currently an editor of Nan-Nü, a new journal devoted to the study of gender issues in traditional China.
Email: bgrant@wustl.edu Office:121 AC Busch Hall Phone: (314) 935-5156

Robert E. Hegel, professor, is a specialist in Ming-Qing fiction; he regularly teaches surveys of literature and courses in fiction and theater, including film, and has served as the primary graduate advisor in literature. He is currently serving as Chair of the Committee on Comparative Literature. He has published many essays, edited the collection Expressions of Self in Chinese Literature, and has authored The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China and Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China. He is co-editor of the journal Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews.
Email: rhegel@wustl.edu Website: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~rhegel
Office: 116 Ridgley Phone: (314) 935-5170

Xia Liang, senior lecturer, taught at Beijing Normal University and the College of William and Mary before joining the Washington University faculty; since that time she has taught at Middlebury College and in the CET Summer Program and the intensive Princeton summer program in Beijing. She has published numerous articles and has co-authored five books. She teaches currently advanced language, conversation, and classical Chinese.
Email: xliang@wustl.edu Office: 27 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-4050

Judy Z. Mu, senior lecturer, currently the coordinator of the language section, earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in linguistics and second language acquisition from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Washington University faculty she has taught at Middlebury and Princeton. Here at Washington University she has taught elementary, intermediate and advanced, heritage learners and legal and business Chinese as well as Chinese teaching pedagogy. She has coordinated our Departmental seminar in language teaching for graduate students, and designed and directed our summer programs in Beijing for 1998 and 1999. She has been the Chinese study abroad liaison and on-site director for the Duke/Wash U Study in China since 2000.
Email: jzmu@wustl.edu http://artsci.wustl.edu/~jzmu/courses.htm
Office: 27 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-6074

Wei Wang, lecturer, received her MA in Chinese linguistics at University of Minnesota, and taught Chinese at Princeton University for three years before she joined the WU faculty. She has been teaching students from level I through level V including heritage speakers. She is currently teaching elementary and advanced Chinese. She has also been the lead teacher of the fifth year level Chinese at the Princeton in Beijing Summer Immersion Program for a couple of years. She has published several articles and is a co-editor of a set of advanced Chinese textbooks.
Email: wwanga@wustl.edu Website: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~wwanga
Office: 27 Busch Hall, Phone: 314-935-9008

Fengtao Wu, senior lecturer, studied and taught at Indiana University before joining our faculty. He has been teaching Chinese for about 25 years, including elementary, intermediate and advanced levels, heritage speakers as well as calligraphy. He has also taught advanced levels as a lead teacher at the summer immersion program of Indiana University and the Middlebury summer school for a number of years. Also he has published a set of textbooks for the beginners and intermediate students.
Email: fwu@wustl.edu http://artsci.wustl.edu/~fwu/Courses.html
Office: 27 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-4326

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