Associate Professor
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Associate Professor, Writing and Literature
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
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- Associate Professor, Writing and LiteratureFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
- +61 3 924 46762 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
BIO
Shih-Wen Sue Chen received her PhD in Literature, Screen and Theatre Studies from The Australian National University (ANU). 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).
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).
Her research interests include Victorian and Edwardian children's literature, Chinese children's literature, book history, histories of reading, and publishing history.
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).
Her research interests include Victorian and Edwardian children's literature, Chinese children's literature, book history, histories of reading, and publishing history.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Associate Professor, Writing and LiteratureDeakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts
DEGREES
- Doctor of PhilosophyAustralian National University
- Master of ArtsUniversity of British Columbia, Canada
- Master of Information TechnologyUniversity of Canberra, Australia
- GCHE ExemptDeakin University
- Bachelor of ArtsNational Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- Chinese (Mandarin)Can read, write, speak and understand
FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)
- Literary studies
- Cultural studies
- Communication and media studies
- Children's literature
- Young adult literature
AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION
- Masters by Research and PhD supervision
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Arts and Education
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE
- School of Communication and Creative Arts
STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE
- Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation