Office hours
MT, 2-3 or by appointment
Spring 2010 Course Syllabi
- CHI 302, Advanced Intermediate Chinese
- A&S 300, Individual and Society in Chinese Culture
Areas of Expertise
Biography and autobiography, narratology, historiography, early Chinese literary theory, early Chinese religion and philosophy
Selected Publications
Monographs
- To Die and Not Decay: Autobiography and the Pursuit of Immortality in Early China. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2009
Articles and Book Chapters
- “Ge Hong,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Classical Chinese Writers, Pre-Tang Era (-598), ed. Curtis
Dean Smith. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2010
- “Ji Kang,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Classical Chinese Writers, Pre-Tang Era (-598), ed. Curtis
Dean Smith. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2010
- “Gan Bao,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Classical Chinese Writers, Pre-Tang Era (-598), ed. Curtis
Dean Smith. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2010
- “(Mis)conceiving the Self in Early China: Memory and Truth in Early Chinese Autobiographical
Writing,” in Beating Devils and Burning Their Books, ed. Anthony Clark. Ann Arbor: Association
for Asian Studies, 2010
- “Self as Historical Artifact: Ge Hong and Early Chinese Autobiography”
Early Medieval China 9 (2004): 71-103
Book Reviews
- Review of Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China.
Early Medieval China 14 (2009)
Selected Presentations
- 2010 “Seeing is Believing: Faith, Doubt and Narrative in Ge Hong’s Baopuzi Neipian”
Association for Asian Studies Southeast Conference, University of Louisville,
Louisville, Kentucky
- 2009 “The Literary and Philosophical Dimensions of Doubt in Ge Hong’s Baopuzi neipian.
13th Annual Southeast Early China Roundtable, University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia
- 2008 “Crime and Punishment: Discipline, Punishment, and Virtue in Ge Hong’s Outer
Chapters.” Association for Asian Studies Pacific Area Conference (ASPAC),
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
- 2007 “The Will’ as the Object of Self-Expression: Zhi and Early Chinese
Autobiographical Writing”
American Oriental Society (AOS) Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
- 2006 “The Master Embracing Obfuscation: Subjectivity and Self-Narrative in
Ge Hong’s Baopuzi”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)
Tucson, Arizona
- 2006 “Doing Philosophy in Early Medieval China”
Pacific Northwest Region American Academy of Religion, Gonzaga University
Spokane, Washington
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