Cynthia Wong, Associate Professor

Courses Taught/Research Areas

2004 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

Modern and contemporary world literature
ENGL 4460/5460: Contemporary World Literature
ENGL 4600/5600: Modern British and Irish Literature
ENGL 4250/5250: 20th Century Fiction)

Women and Ethnic Writers
ENGL 3794: Ethnic Diversity in American Literature

Narrative Theory
ENGL 3001: Critical Writing

Narratives of Polar Exploration
ENGL 3310: Topics course in Exploration Narrative

Recent Research/Publications

2005, 2nd Expanded Edition and 2000. Writers And Their Work:  Kazuo Ishiguro.  Great Britain: Northcote House.

2004 "Kazuo Ishiguro and The Remains of the Day." Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000. Ed. Brian W. Shaffer. Great Britain: Blackwell. 493-503.

2001 "Like Idealism is to the Intellect: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro." CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. Spring 2001.  Pages 9-25.

2000 "Anonymity and Self-Laceration in Chinese Immigrant Writing." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.   Winter 2000. Pages 3-18.

Forthcoming Publications

"Asymmetries: Narratives of Loss and Forgiveness in the Novels of Amy Tan." China Fictions. Ed. A. Robert Lee.

Conversations with Kazuo Ihiguro. Edited with Brian W. Shafer. University Press of Mississippi.

Conference Papers

2005 "Anodyne Fictions of Antarctica Explored in Beryl Bainbridge’s The Birthday Boys." Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, HI.

2002 "Tales of the World Beyond Men from the Age of Heroic Exploration" at Univ of Louisville's 20th Century Literature Conference.

"Enduring Antarctica: Narratives of the Last Expeditions of Scott and Shackleton." Invited presentation at the Univ of Texas-Austin.