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Chih-Ping Chen, Ph.D.

Chih-Ping Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English
Joined Alma College Faculty in 2000
SAC 341
(989) 463-7243
Office Hours: MW: 1-3; TuTh: 4-5:30
Homepage: http://othello.alma.edu/~chen/asianamerican

Education

  • Ph.D. English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000
  • M.A. British and American Literature, National Taiwan University
  • B.A. British and American Literature, National Chengchi University

Research Interests

Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Gender Criticism; Twentieth-Century Ethnic Literature; Post-Colonial Theory and Literature; Gothic Fiction; Crime and Detective Fiction

Directed Student Presentations and Achievements

Selected Book Publications

  • Chih-Ping Chen.  A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery Oâ??Connor, Book translation in Chinese.  Publisher: Liangin (Taipei, Taiwan). ISBN 957-08-0331-2.  1990 ed.  1990.
  • Chih-Ping Chen.  Great Days, by Donald Barthelme, Book translation in Chinese.  Publisher: Kongfu (Taipei, Taiwan).  1988 ed.  1988.

Selected Articles

  • Chih-Ping Chen.  "Educating Women and Women's Educability: Figuring the Host with Cole, Ruskin, and Eliot in the Museum."  Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism.  2008, Vol. 30, Issue 3, P. 243-265  November 2008.
  • Chih-Ping Chen.  "'Am I a monster?': Jane Eyre Among the Shadows of Freaks."  Studies in the Novel.  2003. Vol. 34. Issue 4  2003.
  • Chih-Ping Chen.  "Essay on Edwin Rolfe."  Critical Survey of Poetry, Salem Press.  Second Revised Edition, 2002  2002.
  • Chih-Ping Chen.  "Essays on Mary Johnston, William Meredith, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Edwin Rolfe."  Encyclopedia of American War Literature, Greenwood Press.  2001  2001.
  • Chih-Ping Chen.  "Essays on Shawn Wong and Lois-Ann Yamanaka."  Asian-American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press.  2000  2000.

Selected Reviews

  • Chih-Ping Chen.  Review of Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, by Karyn Z. Sproles.  Kritikon Litteratum (International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies).  36.1 (2009): 96-99
  • Chih-Ping Chen.  Review of Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Womenâ??s Fiction Between the Wars, by Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt.  Kritikon Litteratum (International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies).  35.4 (2008): 103-107
  • Chih-Ping Chen.  Review of Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Maria H. Frawley.  Kritikon Litteratum (International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies).  2005

Recent Presentations

  • Chih-Ping Chen.  ""Teaching British Survey and Asian American Literature with Course Web"."  Faculty of English Department.  National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.  May 18, 2011.
  • "Of Mimicry and Racial Freaks: Shirley Temple and Her "Other" American Sisters."  National Association of African American Studies.  Barton Rouge, Louisiana.  Feb., 2006.
  • "Integrationg Activism into Women's Studies Courses and Student Performance."  Michigan's Women's Studies Association Conference.  Oakland University, Michigan.  April, 2005.

Awards, Honors, Recognitions

  • Diversity Grant
  • Diversity Grant
  • Diversity Grant
  • Faculty Small Grant
  • Diversity Grant
  • Diversity Grant
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Professional Memberships

  • The National Council of Teachers of English
  • Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
  • Modern Language Association

Service to the College

 

Ninety-four percent of Alma College’s 2011 graduates reported working in full-time positions or attending graduate school within six months of graduation.

 

Leadership Profile

Sarah Cox

Sarah Cox
Graduation: 2015
Major: Biology

It didn’t even take a split second for Fenton sophomore Sarah Cox to decide whether she would join Alma College’s cheer team. She has been a cheerleader all her life, she says.

“I like performing in front of a crowd,” she says. “I’m not normally a loud person, but you can really be as loud and enthusiastic as you want while cheering. At Alma, we have a really great, supportive group, and Coach Sabourin is so enthusiastic.”