FACULTY

Sujane Wu
Assistant Professor of Chinese

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Office: Wright Hall 116

Phone: 585-3707

Sujane Wu teaches courses on traditional Chinese literature, culture and language (both classical and modern). She teaches all levels of modern Chinese language, and her literature and culture courses include The Culture of the Lyric in Traditional China (EAL 231), Chinese Poetry and the Other Arts (EAL 237), a seminar on the most famous Chinese vernacular novel, Dream of the Red Chamber [Honglou meng] (EAL 360), and a new course titled Revising the Past in Chinese Literature and Film (PRS 316). Her research focuses primarily on medieval Chinese poetry.

For more than two decades, Wu has been studying, performing and writing extensively about traditional Chinese poetry. One of her primary scholarly interests has been to reconstruct poems in musical performance, which she has come to see as necessary to a full appreciation of the poems themselves as well as the people who wrote and who listened to them. She has given musical performances of Chinese poetry in the United States as well as in Taiwan. In March 2007, she presented a performance for a Khan Liberal Arts Institute project titled Narrative: Identity, in which she participated as a faculty fellow. In March 2009, she gave another performance on the theme of solitude in Chinese poetry for the Poetry Center of Smith College.