Dr. Shunchang Kevin Tsai
Education
- Princeton University PhD in Comparative Literature, 2008 Dissertation: 鈥淭he Allusive Manufacture of Men in Chinese and Latin Literature鈥
- The University of Texas MA in Classical Philology, 1999 Thesis: 鈥淯surping the Voice: Textuality and Tradition in Isocrates鈥 at Austin Harvard University:
- AB in Classics, 1997
Research Interests
- Chinese Literature and Society
- Chinese Film Studies
- Translation Studies
- East-West Comparative Studies
- Greek
- Latin
Publications
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鈥淏rotherhood and Chinese Drama: the Case of Killing a Dog,鈥 the Journal of the American Oriental Society (accepted pending revision)
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鈥淭ranslating Chinese Poetry with a Forked Tongue,鈥 Yearbook of Comparative Literature 54(2008): 166-74.
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鈥淗ellish Love: Genre in Claudian鈥檚 De Raptu Proserpinae [On the Rape of Persephone],鈥 Helios 34(2007): 37-68.
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鈥淩itual and Gender in the 鈥楾ale of Li Wa,鈥欌 Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 26(2004): 99-127.
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鈥淐ourtesans in Chinese Literature,鈥 The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution (Greenwood Press, 2006).
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鈥淧etronius鈥; in The Encyclopedia of World History (Facts on File, 2008).