Qun Wang

Teaching Areas:

Professor Wang is a founding faculty at CSUMB. He teaches lower division and upper division HCOM literature courses such as "Literature, Film, and Culture," "Survey of American Literature," "American Drama," "Asian American Literature," "American Ethnic Literature and Cultures," "Narratives of American Immigration," as well as HCOM core courses such as "Major ProSeminar" and "Senior Capstone."

Research Interests:

His research interests include American drama and American ethnic literature and cultures.

Professional and Community Interests:

Professor Wang has developed the English Subject Matter Preparation Program for HCOM approved by the Commission of California Teaching Credentialing. During the process, he was involved in issues surrounding k-12 education. He is a charter member of the Arthur Miller Society, a founding member of Race, Gender and Class Studies Association, and a member of the Modern Language Association. He has also served on the editorial board for the University Press of the South and Race, Gender, and Class as well as an external reviewer for some of the most prestigious publications in literary studies in the country such as PMLA, MELUS, African American Studies, and Race, Gender, and Class.

Professor Wang has given lectures to English undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors at some of the most prestigious universities in China including Fudan University, Tongji University, East China Normal University, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai university of Business and Finance, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Shanghai University of Sports, Shanghai Finance University, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai Theater Academy, Ningxia University, Inner Mongolian University of Business and Finance, Shanghai Zhenhua Vocational School, et.

Recent Publications

A Voice in Every Wind (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2004)

An In-Depth Study of African American Playwright: August Wilson, Vernacularizing the Blues on Stage (Lewsiton, NY: Edwin Mellin Press, 1999)

Qun Wang and Wendy Ng, eds. Race, Gender & Class: Asian American Voices (New Orleans: Southern University at New Orleans Press, 1997)

The books are collected in some of the most prestigious university libraries in the US such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, etc.; internationally in England (British National Library, Cambridge, Oxford, etc.), Germany, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, People's Republic of China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, etc. (Worldcat.org).

Professor Wang has also published more than 80 book chapters, journal articles, reference book articles, book review essays, and short stories on American literature, American drama, American ethnic literature and cultures.

U-Story

Asian American Literature