Wang, Qun 1956–

PERSONAL:

Born April 28, 1956, in Beijing, China; naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Yi and Huiying Wang; married Lori A. Lee (a certified public accountant), September 12, 1986; children: Sophia, Eugenia. Ethnicity: "Chinese-American." Education: East China Normal University, B.A., 1978, M.A., 1982; University of Oregon, Ph.D., 1990. Politics: "Centrist." Hobbies and other interests: Travel, reading, walking.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Pacific Grove, CA. Office—Department of English, Communication, and Journalism, 100 Campus Center, California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA 93955-8001; fax: 831-582-3585. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

East China Normal University, Shanghai, instructor in English and literature, also translator, 1978-83; University of Wisconsin—River Falls, River Falls, associate professor, 1990-95; California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, associate professor, 1995-99, professor of humanities, 1999—, member of Global Studies Institute, 1995-96, and charter member of Institute for Critical Cultural Studies. Member of editorial board, Race, Gender, and Class: Asian American Voices.

MEMBER:

Modern Language Association of America, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Poets and Writers, Association for Asian American Studies, Race, Gender, and Class Association (founding member), Arthur Miller Society (charter member).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Ford Foundation fellow at University of Pennsylvania, 1991; grants from California State University system, 1999 and 2000.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Wendy Ng, and contributor) Race, Gender, and Class: Asian American Voices, Southern University at New Orleans Press (New Orleans, LA), 1997.

An In-Depth Study of the Major Plays of African American Playwright August Wilson: Vernacularizing the Blues on Stage, Edwin Mellen Press, (Lewiston, NY), 1999.

A Voice in Every Wind (short stories), University Press of the South (New Orleans, LA), 2004.

Contributor to books, including An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Fiction, edited by Peter Wan, East China Normal University Press (Shanghai, China), 2nd edition, 1982; Anthology of the Writers of Wisconsin, Crowbar (Madison, WI), 1995; New to North America, edited by Abby Bogomolny, Burning Bush (New York, NY), 1998; and The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving out a Niche, edited by Katherine B. Payant and Toby Rose, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1999. Contributor of articles, short stories, and reviews to scholarly journals and other periodicals, including Timber Creek Review, In the Grove, Popular Culture Review, Mattoid: Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Paintbrush, Literature and Arts Abroad, and Passages.

SIDELIGHTS:

Qun Wang once told CA: "I am motivated to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of society and human existence; to define my relationship with both the mainstream and my own culture. My writing has been influenced by Ralph Ellison, Raymond Williams, Michel Foucault, and a whole bunch of Asian-American writers and scholars. My writing process consists of formulating ideas, researching, writing, and revision. I am inspired by current discussions of multi-culturalism, the study of diversity of American society, the future of the country, and literary and cultural studies."