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)