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Office Hours:
On leave 2007-2008
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Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Ph.D.: Stanford University, 1980, Chinese language and literature
M.A.: Stanford University, 1968, Chinese language and literature B.A.: University of Minnesota, 1965, double major in Chinese and Spanish
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At Middlebury since 1976 when he (in collaboration with the late Gregory Kuei-ke Chiang) founded the department
Expertise and Research Interests
Chinese fiction of the Twenties and Thirties
Twentieth-century Chinese politics and aesthetic movements Twentieth-century western literary theory and criticism
The history of traditional Chinese ink painting
Twentieth-century classical ink painting
Courses Taught
Beginning Chinese language sequence
Modern Chinese literature in translation
Junior/senior seminar in western literary theory and criticism (CHNS 360)
Chinese ink painting from the Tang dynasty to the 20th-century (art history)
"Literature and Revolution" (team-taught)
"Versions of the Foreign" (cross-cultural contact and conflicts as seen through world literature, team-taught)
Intermediate Chinese language sequence
Advanced Chinese language courses
Introduction to literature (team-taught, seminar format)
Modern Asian fiction in translation
Tang and Song dynasty classical poetry in translation
"Growing up in America" Multi-cultural narratives (first year seminars)
Literature, Politics and Memory (first year seminars)
The Life and Writings of George Orwell (first year seminar)