CHRISTINA CHENG

Education

Fall 2007 – Winter 2009 UC, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

Master of Arts in Comparative Literature

Fall 2004 – Spring 2006 San Diego State University San Diego

Master of Arts in English Literature

with a specialization in Children's Literature

Thesis: Bestselling Children's Books in Taiwan and the United States

Fall 2000 – Spring 2004 University of British Columbia Vancouver

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature

Research Interest

18th-century British Literature, emphasis on gender, disease, and medical practices, Contemporary Asian American Literature, emphasis on trauma and memory; Taiwanese Film and Cinema; Children's Literature

Fellowships and Honors 

2011 Teaching Excellence Award (化雨獎) awarded by Ching Yun University

2011 Grant to create course websites for digital instruction awarded by Ching Yun University

2010 Teaching Excellence Award (Service) awarded by Ching Yun University

2010 Grant to create course websites for digital instruction awarded by Ching Yun University

2008 Travel grant to present conference paper awarded by Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Conference

Travel grant to present conference paper awarded by the Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture, UCSB.

Departmental fellowship for summer language study abroad at the University of British Columbia

2005 Travel grant to present conference paper awarded by Children's Literature Association

Paper Presentations

Homoerotic Desires in Tsai Ming-Liang's The River

Presented at the Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture, Graduate Student Colloquium, UCSB. Nov 2008.

Alexander Pope and Print Culture

Presented at Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Conference, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. Oct 2008.

Family Dynamics in Marguerite Duras' The Lover and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

Presented at the 9th Annual UC Santa Barbara – UC Irvine Graduate Conference in French and Francophone Studies, UCSB. May 2008.

Lily Bart, the Woman Artist in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

Presented at (disjunctions) 2008: 15th Annual Humanities Conference, UC Irvine. Apr 2008.

Causes of the Plague in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year—The Devil's Work, God's Design, or Natural Origin

Presented at Early Modern Center Colloquium, UCSB. Feb 2008.

Barbadian Culture Through the Memory of Food in Austin Clarke's “Bakes” and “Smoked Ham Hocks with Lima Beans”

Presented at the Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture, Graduate Student Colloquium, UCSB. Nov 2007.

The Construction and Subjectivity of Children in the Book and Film of Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

Presented at Children's Literature Association Annual Conference, University of Winnipeg, Canada. June 2005.

Employment

Sept 2009 – present            Ching Yun University Zhongli, Taiwan

English Lecturer: First Year English, Second Year English, TOEIC, Oral Test, Vocabulary and Reading, Reading and Writing

Dec 2008 – March 2009 UC, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

Teaching Assistant for Asian American 4: Introduction to Pop Culture (3 sections)

Sept 2008 – Dec 2009 UC, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

Reader for Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies 123C: Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

Sept 2007 – June 2008 UC, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

Teaching Assistant for Comparative Literature 30 A/ B/ C: Classical to Medieval Literature/ Renaissance to Neoclassical Literature/ Romantic to Modern Literature (2 sections)

Sept 2006 – Dec 2006 San Diego Miramar College Miramar, CA

Instructor for English 51: Basic Composition (2 sections)

Aug 2006 – Feb 2007 Intelli-zone Learning Center Chula Vista, CA

Writing Instructor

Sept 2004 – Dec 2004 San Diego State University San Diego, CA

Graduate Teaching Associate for RWS 100: Rhetoric of Written Argument