Meet our faculty
Lan Dong
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. Comparative Literature,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Email: ldong4@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8334
Office: UHB 3074
Teaching and Research Interests:
Asian American Literature and Film, Comparative Literature, Popular Culture, Graphic Narratives, Children’s Literature
Courses taught:
Asian American Women and Literature
Chinese American Action Cinema
Exploring Literature
Fiction by Nobel Laureates
From China to Chinese America
Graphic Novel
Honors Composition
How Do You Know? Multicultural America
Images of Asian/Asian Americans in Literature and Films
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to the Discipline
Memoirs across Cultures
World Literature, East West
Selected Publications:
Lan Dong is the author of Mulan's Legacy and Legend in China and the United States (Temple UP 2011), Reading Amy Tan (Greenwood 2009), and a number of book chapters and journal articles on Asian American literature and film, children's literature, and comparative literature. She is the editor of Transnationalism and the Asian American Heroine: Essays on Literature, Film, Myth and Media (McFarland 2010) and a forthcoming book on teaching graphic narratives.
