LING, Amy

LING, Amy. American (born China), b. 1939. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Cultural/Ethnic topics, Poetry. Career: Chengkung University, Tainan, Taiwan, lecturer in foreign languages and literatures, 1962-63; Lui, Paris, France, bilingual secretary, 1963; high school English teacher in Valley Stream, NY, 1963-65; Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (publisher), New York City, editorial assistant, 1965-66; City College of the City University of New York, New York City, lecturer in English, 1966-69; Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, instructor in English, 1969-72; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, assistant professor of English, 1972-88, coordinator of basic writing program at Livingston College, 1972-75; Georgetown University, Washington, DC, adjunct instructor in English, 1988-89; Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY, Rockefeller fellow in the humanities at Asian/American Center, 1989-90; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, visiting associate professor of English, 1990; Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Visiting Allan K. Smith Associate Professor of Language and Literature, 1991; University of Wisconsin-Madison, associate professor of English and director of Asian American studies, 1991-94, professor 1994-. Publications: Chinamerican Reflections (chapbook of poems and paintings), 1984; (ed. with P. Lauter, J. Bruce-Novoa, J. Bryer, and others) Heath Anthology of American Literature, 1989; Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry, 1990; (ed. with S. Hune, Hyung-chan Kim, and S. Fugita, and contrib.) Asian Americans: Comparative and Global Perspectives, 1991; (ed. with W. Brown) Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land, 1991; (ed. with S. Lim) Reading the Literatures of Asian America, 1992; (ed. with W. Brown) Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land, 1993; (ed. with C.N. Davidson, L. Wagner-Martin & others) The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, 1995; (with A. White-Parks) Mrs. Spring Fragrance and other writings by Sui Sin Far, 1995. Author of television scripts. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of articles, poems, and reviews to periodicals. Address: Department of English, University of Wisconsin, 600 North Park St., Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.