Title: Associate Professor
Department: English
Office: 410 Benson Hall
Phone: 615-343-3186
Fax: 615-343-8028
Email: tina.chen@vanderbilt.edu
Degrees
- B.A., Georgetown University
- M.A., Georgetown University
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Research Area
- Asian American literature and culture
- 20th-century Ethnic American literature
- ethics and pedagogy
- Contemporary American drama
Current Courses
Current Positions
- Member, Executive Committee, Division on Asian American Literature, MLA
Previous Positions
- Co-Chair, East of California (EOC) caucus, 2003-2005
Professional Societies
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
- American Studies Association (ASA)
Professional Honors
- Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Double Agency
- Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching
- Affirmative Action and Diversity Award, Certificate of Recognition
Publications
- BOOK
- Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture, Stanford University Press 2005
- SELECTED ARTICLES
- "Towards an Ethics of Knowledge," MELUS 30.2 (Summer 2005): 157-74.
- "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 Ziaojing and Samina Najmi. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2005. 249-67.
- "Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee," Modern Fiction Studies 48.3 (Fall 2002): 636-66.
- "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: Temple UP, 2002. 218-37.
- "'Unraveling the Deeper Meaning': Exile and the Embodied Poetics of Displacement in The Things They Carried ," Contemporary Literature 39.1 (Spring 1998): 77-98.
