![]() | Nancy Hodes, PhDAcademic Administration - Undergraduate Program StaffFaculty - Full-Time Professor of Chinese Language & Culture Director of the Language and Culture Program Phone: 949-480-4029 |
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- M.A., Harvard University
- B.A., Harvard University
Positions Held
- At SUA since 2000
- 1991 - 2000, Associate Editor, Mao Project Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
- 1993 - 1995, Associate Director, Boston Research Center for the 21st Century
- 1991 - 1994, Adj. Assistant Professor, Boston College
- 1987 - 1989, Assistant Editor, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Research Interests
- Late Imperial and modern Chinese literature and intellectual history
- Literary translation--theory and practice
- The Chinese community in the U.S.
Selected Papers, Publications & Lectures
- Mao's Road to Power. Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, ed. Stuart R. Schram, vols I-VII (Associate Ed except vol I) M.E. Sharpe, 1992-2005
- Translation of four poems in World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time, ed. Katharine Washburn, John Major, Clifton Fadiman, W.W. Norton, 1998
- "The Joys of Collaboration in Translating Chinese Poetry," China Exchange News 21, 3 & 4, 1993
- Translation of "Grass Rings," in Festival of Flowers: Essays by Contemporary Chinese Women, ed. Zhu Hong, Yilin Publishing House 1995
- Translation of 29 poems in Women Writers of Traditional China: an Anthology of Poetry and Criticism, ed. Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy, Stanford Universtiy Press, 1999
- Translation of "Gone Astray" a poem by Bei Dao, Christian Science Monitor, May 18, 1983
- Translation of chapters 5, 6, 7 of Critical Reflections on my Pursuit of Learning, by Hsiao Kung-ch'uan, Chinese Studies in History XII, 2, 3, and 4, 1978-79
- Translation of "Leading the Way," by Chu Min-shen, in Yenan Seeds and Other Stories, Beijing Foreign Languages Press 1976
- A Chinese-English Dictionary, comp. Chinese-English Dictionary Editorial Committee, Beijing Foreign Languages Inst. (#1) Ed. Comm. member) Beijing Shangwu yinshu guan, 1978
Courses Taught at SUA
- Introduction to Peace Studies
- Modes of Inquiry
- Core I00, The Enduring Questions of Humanity
- First-year Chinese I
- First-year Chinese II
- Second-year Chinese I
- Second-year Chinese II
- Intermediate Review
- Third-year Chinese I
- Learning Cluster: The Chinese Immigrant Community in Southern California
Biography
- Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC Research Fellowship, 1985-1986
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 1985-1986
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