Lingchei Letty Chen
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature
Head of the Chinese Section
Degrees:
Ph.D., Columbia University
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.
Courses Taught
- 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
Selected Publications
- Writing Chinese: Reshaping Chinese Cultural Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, 2006.
- WU Newsroom: "Professor of Chinese Literature Reshapes Cultural Identities, Creates Opportunities"
Other
- Hold That Thought podcast: Memories of Chinese New Year