Lingchei Letty Chen

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature

Head of the Chinese Section

(on leave FL17)

Degrees:

Ph.D., Columbia University

CV:

E-mail:

Phone:

314.935.5147

Fax:

314.935.4399

Office:

225 Busch Hall

Mailbox:

Campus Box 1111
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Research Interests

Identity politics, memory and postmemory studies, mimesis, travel theory, narratology, postcolonialism, postmodernism.

L81 208 Freshman Seminar: The Chinese America Experience
L04 330 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Chinese Fin-de-Siecle in Film and Literature
L04 342 Literature of Modern and Contemporary China
L16 375 Topics in Comparative Literature I: The Trope of 'China' in the Imagination of the Chinese Diaspora
L04 479 Reading Seminar in Modern Chinese Literature: Envisioning a New China: The May Fourth Era (1919-1949)
L04 479 Reading Seminar in Modern Chinese Literature: After the May Fourth Era (1950-Present)
L04 489 Topics in Modern Chinese Literature: History, Memory, and Identity
L04 4891 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: The Chinese City in the Global Context
L04 560 Seminar in the Literature of China: Violence, Feminity & Fictional Writing in 20th Century China

Writing Chinese: Reshaping Chinese Cultural Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, 2006.
WU Newsroom: "Professor of Chinese Literature Reshapes Cultural Identities, Creates Opportunities"