Yu Min (Claire) Chen
Visiting Assistant Professor, Chinese
4223 Jiménez Hall
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Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington
Research Expertise
20th Century
Asian American Studies
Autobiography
Chinese
Comparative Literature
Film Theory
Transnational Studies
Yu Min (Claire) Chen is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland College Park. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington with a minor in literary and film Theory. Her primary research interests include Comparative Literature, Asian American literature, transnational writing, (literature of Diaspora), and film studies. Her recent works include: “Belonging and (Un)belonging in The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei, Memories of Peking: South Side Stories, and The Lost Garden,” and “Lost in Time: (Time-Space) Memory, Repetition, and Representations in Wong Kar-wai’s trilogy.
Courses
Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
Sinophone Cinema
Comparative Literature topic courses
Asian American Literature and Films
World Literature