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Lan Dong 
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. Comparative Literature,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Email: ldong4@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8334
Office: UHB 3071
Teaching and Research Interests: Asian-American Literature, Women’s Writing, Multicultural America, World and Comparative Literature, Children’s Literature, Graphic Novels
Selected Publications:
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"Representing Cultural Uncertainties in A Great Wall and Pushing Hands." Interactions 15.2 (2006)
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"Countervailing Movements of Time and Space: Narrative Structure of Heart of Darkness." Interactions 14.2 (2006).
- "Writing Chinese America into Words and Images: Storytelling and Re-telling of The Song of Mu Lan." The Lion and the Unicorn 30.2 (April 2006).
- "Tracing Gay Chinese Cinema in the Past Decade 1993-2002: Farewell My Concubine, East Palace West Palace, and Lan Yu." Comparative Literature and Culture 7.1 (June 2005)
- "Turning Japanese, Turning Japanese American: David Mura's Memoirs of a Sansei." The AnaChronisT: A Yearbook 10 (2004).
- "Gendered Home and Space for the Diaspora:Gish Jen's Typical American." thirdspace: a journal for emerging feminist scholars 4.1 (November 2004).
- "Diverse Identities in Interracial Relationships: A Multiethnic Interpretation of Mississippi Masala and The Wedding Banquet." Xchanges 4.1 (September 2004)
Presentations delivered at the following:
- American Literature Association
- Associating for Asian American Studies
- Association for Asian Studies
- Cultural Studies Association
- Midwest Conference of Asian Affairs
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Modern Language Association
- New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
- Northeast Modern Language Association
- Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
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