About Author

Shelley Wing Chan is an associate professor of Chinese language and cultural studies at Wittenburg University. She teaches courses in Chinese language, literature, and culture. A graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University, she earned her PhD in comparative literature and humanities from the University of Colorado–Boulder and her Master’s degree in East Asian languages and literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has taught Mandarin Chinese and Chinese literature at Stanford University, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Beloit College, and Kalamazoo College. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, culture, and language pedagogy. Dr. Chan has also carried out research on Tang poetry and popular literature of the Ming Dynasty and has studied and written about gender issues from a cross-cultural perspective. Her articles and translations have appeared in both the U.S. and Hong Kong. Dr. Chan has also presented scholarly papers at professional conferences for the Association for Asian Studies, the Modern Language Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, and the American Oriental Society.