ANELL Chinese Faculty



Letty Chen	Wenhui Chen	Beata Grant	Robert Hegel	Hui-mei Hsu	Pauline Lee

Xia Liang	Chun-yng Lin	Ke Nie	Judy Mu	Wei Wang	Fengtao Wu

CHINESE SECTION FACULTY

Lingchei Letty Chen, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature, and Director of East Asian Studies Program. Received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York, in 2001. She regularly offers courses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, Chinese cities in the global context, and graduate seminars on various topics. Her research interests include: Modern Chinese Literature (including Taiwan and Hong Kong), Chinese American Literature, Theories of Postmodernism and Postcolonialism, Identity Politics, Globalization Studies, and Memory and History Writing. Her book, Writing Chinese: Shaping Chinese Cultural Identity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) is a study of the current debate over the concept of identity as explored in literature from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and by Chinese American writers and Chinese expatriates living abroad. The book addresses how narratives use textual imitation and appropriation to synthesize diverse cultural identities.
Email: llchen@wustl.edu Office: 225 Busch Hall; Phone: (314) 935-5147; 253 McMillan Hall Phone: (314) 935-5194

Wenhui Chen, lecture, received her MA in Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. She has been teaching Chinese since 1991. Before she joined the WU faculty, she taught Chinese at Hamilton College for one year and at a high school for two years in the US. She was also responsible for the teacher training program while she was teaching in Taiwan and in Japan. She has been teaching students from level I through level IV including heritage speakers. She has taught at the Middlebury summer school for a few years. She has co-authored the textbook “Chat about the E-Life-An Intermediate Course” and participated in the book on teaching grammar "Grammar Made Easy".
Email: wchen@artsci.wustl.edu http://artsci.wustl.edu/~wchen Office: 024 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-4050

Beata Grant, professor, teaches a broad range of courses in pre-modern Chinese literature including undergraduate surveys and upper-level seminars. She regularly teaches courses in religious studies as well, including courses on gender and sexuality in East Asian Religions, and on religion in Chinese literature. Her recent publications include / Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of seventeenth-Century China / (Hawaii UP, 2009); / The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China / (with Wilt Idema, Harvard Asia Center, 2004) and /Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns / (Wisdom, 2003). She is also on the editorial board of / Nan-Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China,/ a journal devoted to the study of gender issues in traditional China, and recently edited a two-issue volume of this journal entitled /Religion and Gender in China, / to which she also contributed an article.
Email: bgrant@wustl.edu Office: 223 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-8577

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 the Deputy Chair of the Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department. 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: 229 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-7476

Pauline Lee, assistant professor of Chinese Religions and Culture, completed her Ph.D. from Stanford University, department of Religious Studies, in 2002. She teaches courses on Chinese religion and philosophy, including “Chinese Thought,” “The Confucian Tradition: The Sage and Society,” and “Introduction to Daoism: Poetry, Literature, and Philosophy.” She is completing a book project on the subject of Li Zhi 李贄 (1527-1602), Confucianism, and the Virtue of Desire, and in her current work examines conceptions of children in late-Ming China. In addition to her central interest in late-Ming Chinese thought, she is engaged in the study of comparative religious ethics, pre-Qin (ca. 500-200 BCE) Chinese thought, and the subject of women in China.
Email: pclee@wustl.edu. Office: 227 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-9438

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: 024 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-4050

Chun-ying Lin, lecturer, earned her MA in Chinese linguistics at National Taiwan Normal University(NTNU), and taught Chinese at Middlebury College summer school, Duke Summer program, Mandarin Training Center(MTC) in NTNU, International Chinese Language Program in NTU(formerly the Stanford [IUP], Taipei) before joining WU faculty. She has taught elementary, intermediate and advanced levels, legal and business Chinese as well as Advance Chinese conversation and Modern Chinese Literature courses. Her research interests are Chinese pedagogical grammar, conversation analysis, material compilation and assessment.
Email: clin@artsci.wustl.edu
Office: 024 Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-4050

Judy Z. Mu, senior lecturer, currently the Chinese language coordinaor, 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: 024A Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-6074

Ke Nie, lecturer, received her MA in Education at the Capital Normal University, Beijing. She has taught Chinese at the Duke/Wash U Program in China since 2005. Currently she is teaching Chinese Level I, III and IV.
Email: knie@artsci.wustl.edu http://artsci.wustl.edu/~knie
Office: 024A 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 was also the lead teacher of the fifth year level Chinese at the Princeton in Beijing Summer Immersion Program for four years, and was the lead teacher of the second year Chinese at Duke in China summer program in 2008. She has published several articles and is a co-editor of a set of advanced Chinese textbooks: Anything Goes, 2006; Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, 2007, both published by Princeton University Press.
Email: wwanga@wustl.edu Website: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~wwanga
Office: 024A Busch Hall, Phone: 314-935-6074

Fengtao Wu, senior lecturer, studied and taught at Indiana University before joining our faculty. He has been teaching Chinese since 1971.He has taught elementary, intermediate and advanced levels, heritage speakers as well as calligraphy and advanced composition. He has also taught advanced levels as a lead teacher at the summer immersion program of Indiana University and at the Middlebury summer Chinese school for about 20 years. He was the language director for the Wash U and Duke program in China in 2000, 2002 and 2004. Also he has published a set of textbooks for the beginners and intermediate students and co-authored the book on teaching grammar "Grammar Made Easy" published in 2008.
Email: fwu@wustl.edu http://artsci.wustl.edu/~fwu
Office: 026A Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-4326

Hui-Mei Hsu, lecturer, received her Master’s Degree in Chinese Pedagogy at Middlebury College. Her research interests are Language Testing and Assessment. Before she joined the WU faculty, she had taught Chinese Language at Providence University since 2004. She has been teaching students from level I through level IV including heritage speakers. Currently she is teaching Chinese Level III. She has co-authored the textbook “Living Chinese I” and “Living Chinese II”, Trial Edition.
Email: hhsu@artsci.wustl.edu
Office: 026A Busch Hall, Phone: (314) 935-4326

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