Megan M. Ferry Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies Modern Languages and Literatures Department Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 (518) 388-7104
[email protected] EDUCATION Washington University-St. Louis, Comparative Literature (Chinese and German languages and literatures), PhD August 1998. Dissertation: "Chinese Women Writers of the 1930s and Their Critical Reception." Washington University-St. Louis, Comparative Literature, MA, Fall, 1993. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Asian Studies/German, BA, cum laude, 1989. International Study Inter-University Program (National Taiwan University), Taipei, advanced Chinese language study,1989-1990. University of Frankfurt, Germany, DAAD Scholarship, film studies, Summer, 1989. Beijing Normal University, China, Chinese language study, 1987-1988. Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, Chinese language study, Summer, 1987. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Chair, Modern Languages and Literatures Department, Union College, 2016-2020 Professor of Chinese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Union College, September 2017; Associate Professor, Union College 2005-2017 Visiting faculty, Uninter, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2008-2009 Luce Junior Professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Union College, 1999-2005 Lecturer, Department of Russian, Eurasian, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University, 1998-1999 Visiting Research Fellow, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 1995-1997 Instructor and teaching assistant, Comparative Literature Program, Washington University in St. Louis, 1992-1998 RESEARCH INTERESTS • Gender and sexuality • Global China vis-à-vis • Foreign language • Media studies China-Africa-Latin advocacy and policy • Modern Chinese literature, American relations film and culture • Dams and development • Asian American film • Chinese language pedagogy PUBLICATIONS ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7471-0863 BOOKS Chinese Women Writers and Modern Print Culture, Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2018.