Jack Chen

Assistant Professor, Chinese Poetry and Thought

Department: Asian Languages and Cultures

290 Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
CA jwchen@humnet.ucla.edu

Keywords: China, Chinese Studies

EDUCATION

2002: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Dissertation: “Denying Imperial Bodies: Tang Taizong and the Poetics of Sovereignty.”

1996: M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

1994: B.A. in Literature, Yale University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Chinese Literature, with emphasis in poetry

PUBLICATIONS

“The Writing of Imperial Poetry in Medieval China,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 65.1 (June 2005): 57-98.

“Politics and Chinese Religion” (co-authored with Natasha Heller), in Lindsay Jones, gen. ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd rev. ed. (New York: Macmillan, 2004), pp. 7266-7270.