Associate ProfessorSue Chen

Shih-Wen Sue Chen (PhD, Australian National University) is an Associate Professor in Writing and Literature and co-convenor of the Asian Media, Culture & Society Research Group. Her research focuses on how texts reflect and shape changing concepts of childhood and youth across cultures and the politics of representation, particularly nineteenth-century cross-cultural exchange between China and the West. She is the author of Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China: Education, Religion, and Childhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Representations of China in British Children’s Fiction, 1851–1911 (Routledge, 2013) and the co-editor of Representations of Children and Success in Asia: Dream Chasers (Routledge, 2022). With Kristine Moruzi, she co-edits the journal Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, the official scholarly publication of the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research. She is also an associate editor of Children’s Literature in Education. 

Sue was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Tamkang University, Taiwan and has also lectured in National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. She has extensive experience in teaching literary studies and children's literature to university students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds, having taught at the ANU, University of Canberra, NTHU, Tamkang, and the University of British Columbia (Canada). 

Her research interests include Victorian and Edwardian children's literature, Chinese children's literature, book history, histories of reading, and publishing history. She is currently working on a research project on science in nineteenth-century children’s literature.