Faculty Directory - Bio
Tina Chen
Associate Professor of English and Asian Studies
Office:
16 Burrowes
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: (814) 863-9592
E-mail:
tina.chen@psu.edu
Educational History
B.A. Georgetown University
M.A. Georgetown University
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
Asian American literature and culture, performance studies, ethics and pedagogy, comparative Ethnic American literary studies
Awards:
University Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University, 2006-2007
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Double Agency, 2006
Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching,
Vanderbilt University 2003
Affirmative Action and Diversity Award, Certificate of Recognition,
Vanderbilt University 2003
University Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University, 2001-2002
Fellow, Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center, Vanderbilt University 2001-2002
Initiative on Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum Grant, Vanderbilt University 1999-2000
Major Publications:
Books:
Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Contemporary Asian American Literature and Culture (Stanford University Press, 2005).
Journal Articles
“Making Things More Difficult: Re-considering ‘Success’ in the Asian American
Literature Classroom.” Journal of Asian American Studies 9.2 (2006): 188-191. (published in collaboration with Yoonmee Chang, Jennifer Ho, Paul Lai, and Shilpa Davé in “Teaching Texts: Unexpected Sites of Knowledge and Practice,” 181-202).
“Towards an Ethics of Knowledge,” MELUS 30.2 (2005): 157-74.
“Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee,”
Modern Fiction Studies 48.3 (2002): 636-66.
“‘Unraveling the Deeper Meaning’: Exile and the Embodied Poetics of Displacement
in The Things They Carried.” Contemporary Literature 39.1 (1998): 77-98.
“Betrayed into Motion: The Seduction of Narrative Desire in M. Butterfly.” Critical
Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism 1.2 (1994): 129-54.
Book Chapters:
“Recasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: the Politics of Genre in Native Speaker by
Chang-rae Lee.” Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature. Eds. Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2005. 249-67. (a revised and truncated version of the MFS essay)
“Dissecting the Devil Doctor: Stereotype and Sensationalism in Sax Rohmer’s Fu
Manchu.” Re/collecting Early Asian America. Eds. Josephine Lee, Imogene Lim, Yuko Matsukawa. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP, 2002. 218-237.
Edited Journals:
“Postcolonial Asian America,” a special issue of Jouvert: a journal of postcolonial studies.
Co-edited with Viet Thanh Nguyen. 4.3 (Spring/Summer 2000). Online. Internet.
Professional Service (selected):
Executive Committee, Division on Asian American Literature, MLA
Co-Chair, East of California caucus (EOC), AAAS
Site Committee, 2006 AAAS Conference
Coordinating Committee, East of California caucus (EOC), AAAS
Regional Planning Committee, Diversity and Learning Network for Academic
Renewal Conference, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
Program Committee, 1999 MELUS Conference
Editorial Board Member, Asian Diaspora Literatures
Editorial Board Member, Jouvert: A journal of postcolonial studies
Reader: PMLA, Modern Language Studies (MLS), Modern Fiction Studies (MFS), MELUS,
Contemporary Literature, Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS)
Manuscripts Reviewer: Rutgers University Press, Fordham University Press,
University of Minnesota Press
