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
Asian American Literature and Culture, World Literature, Comparative Literature, Women’s Writing, Children’s Literature, the Graphic Novel
Asian American Women and Literature
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
Lan Dong is the author of Reading Amy Tan (Greenwood-ABC-CLIO, 2009) and contributor to Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature (Routledge 2008), Color, Hair and Bone: Race in the 21st Century (Associated University Presses, 2008), Teaching the Novel Across the Curriculum (Greenwood Press, 2008), and several other books and reference works. She has published several journal articles on Asian American literature and film, children’s literature, and comparative literature.
