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English - Creative Writing

?Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters
?MFA Fiction, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1985)

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Genres:
Novel, Literary Essay, Short Fiction, Memoir; Transnational literatures in English; World Literatures in translation (especially literatures of Asia and postcolonial spaces); World Politics (esp. China-US relations); Indonesian language and literature.

Office Number:?Fenwick 218? ? ?Office Phone:?508-793-2365?
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Jenks Seminars

CREATIVE PROSE-Fall 2023
6 Sessions: Wednesdays 4:30-6:30 PM, Begins Sept. 13, 2023

SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A NOVEL-Fall 2022

WRITING LIVES WRITING LIVES-Fall 2021

Recent Publications

For a complete listing of publications?please see the CV above.

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art and craft of asian stories

The Art & Craft of Asian Stories, ed. Hemley/Xu, Bloomsbury Academic, October 2021. (forthcoming)

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xuxi fish

This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being, essays, American Lives Series, University of Nebraska Press, March 2019.

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insignificance_line

Insignificance Hong Kong Stories, fiction, Signal 8 Press, Wyoming/Hong Kong, June, 2018.

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dear HK

Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City, memoir, Penguin Australia, July, 2017.

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that man in our lives

That Man in Our Lives, novel, C&R Press, North Carolina, USA, September, 2016.


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