Office: HMNSS 2413 |
YENNA WU
Professor Yenna Wu's area of specialization is Chinese literature, culture, and language. In addition to narrative, gender, and prison studies, her work also involves Chinese language pedagogy and Sino-Western comparative studies. Her numerous publications include The Chinese Virago: A Literary Theme (Harvard, 1995), The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage (co-authored with Philip F. Williams, UC Press, 2004), Remolding and Resistance among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp: Disciplined and Published (co-edited, Routledge, 2006), Me and China (co-authored, 2008), and Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way (co-authored, 2008). Professor Wu's research on Chinese women and the representation of gender dynamics has broadened to include analyses of the differences between Western feminism and Chinese women's studies in the framework of transnational feminism and globalization. She continues her research on literary portrayals of cannibalism, engaging postcolonial discourse on this topic. Exploring the issues of psychological trauma and human rights through prison camp fiction and memoirs, she is also interested in examining the intersections of politics and aesthetics in prison literature in an interliterary and intercultural context. Professor Wu's Curriculum Vitae |
