WU, Yenna 1957-

PERSONAL: Born 1957, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan; U.S. citizen. Ethnicity: "Pacific Islander." Education: National Taiwan University, B.A., 1978; University of California—Los Angeles, M.A., 1981; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1986.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California—Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0321; fax: 909-787-2160. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, assistant professor and director of Chinese Language Program, 1986-92; University of California—Riverside, Riverside, CA, assistant professor, 1992-96, associate professor, 1996-99, professor of Chinese, 1999—, director of Asian Languages and Civilization Program, 2002—.

AWARDS, HONORS: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation scholar at Middlebury College, 1986; grants from Pacific Cultural Foundation, 1990-91, 1994.

WRITINGS:

(Translator into Chinese) Knut Hamsun, E (title means "Hunger"), Chi-wen Publishing (Taipei, Taiwan), 1982.

(Translator) The Lioness Roars: Shrew Stories from Late Imperial China, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1995.

The Chinese Virago: A Literary Theme, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 1995.

(With Philip F. Williams) Chinese the Easy Way,, Barron's (Hauppage, NY) 1999.

Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeeth-Century Chinese Novel, Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan—Marriage As Retribution, Awakening the World, Edwin Mellen (Lewiston, NY), 1999.

(Editor, with Philip F. Williams, and contributor) Zhongguo funü yu wenxue lunji (title means "Critical Essays on Chinese Women and Literature"), Daw Shiang Publishing (Taipei, Taiwan), Volume 1, 1999, Volume 2, 2001.

(With Philip F. Williams) The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), in press.

Contributor to books, including The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, Encyclopedia of the Novel, and The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. Contributor to numerous journals, including American Journal of Chinese Studies, Chinese Culture, Asia Major, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Tamkang Review: Quarterly of Comparative Studies between Chinese and Foreign Literatures, and Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews.