The inaugural Malcolm G. Chace '56 Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Education
B. A., Tunghai University (1966)
Graduate Institute of Foreign Languages, National Taiwan University (Completed all the course requirements except for the M.A. thesis)(1966-68)
M. L. S., Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey (1971)
M.A., South Dakota State University (1972)
Ph.D. Princeton University (1978)
Professional Experience
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Tufts University (1979-80)
Curator, Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections, Princeton University (1980-81)
Yale University:
Assistant Professor (1982-86); Associate Professor (1986-90), Chinese Literature
Professor, Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (1990-2009)(Chairperson of the Department (1991-97; 2015)
Director of Graduate Studies (1984-91; 1998-2000; 2003; 2008-09; 2013-14; 2019-2020)
on the Faculty Associated with the Program of Women's and Gender Studies (1990-2021)
the Faculty Associated with the Literature Major, Department of Comparative Literature (2001-2021)
Malcolm G. Chace '56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature (2009-2021)
Malcolm G. Chace '56 Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Literature (2021-present)
Specialties
Pre-modern Chinese Literature, Women Writers of Traditional China, Comparative Studies of Poetry, Literary Criticism, Gender Studies, Hermeneutics, Cultural Theory/Aesthetics
Awards and Honors
Princeton University Fellowship (1974-76);
NDFL Title VI Fellowship (1976-77);
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (1977-78);
Morse Fellowship, Yale University (1985-86);
ACLS Fellowship in Chinese Studies (1989);
Honorary Degree of Master of Arts, privatim, Yale University (1991);
Elected Most Distinguished Alumna, Kaohsiung Oil Refinery Primary School, Taiwan. (1992);
DeVane Medal for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarship (2012);
Academician, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015);
Elected Outstanding Alumni, Tunghai University (2016)