Woon-Ping Chin

Woon-Ping Chin (Chin Woon Ping)

Visiting Professor of English

Ph.D. English, University of Toledo

Chin.Woon-Ping@Dartmouth.EDU

My primary interests are Asian American literature, East-West literary relations, postcolonial Southeast Asian literature, feminist theory and performance. I am also a poet, translator, playwright and performance artist.

Courses at Dartmouth College

Asian American Poetry; Asian American Performance; Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature; Buddhism in American Literature

Selected Publications

• "Sycorax Revisited: Exile and Absence in Performance," Modern Drama, August 2003
• "Performing History, Claiming Time," Main Street, Dartmouth College, Spring 2002
• "The Mystery of the Postcolonial Woman," the National University of Singapore Department of Sociology Working Papers Series, Singapore, 2001
• "The Politics of Pathology: Wong Phui Nam's Remembering Grandma and Other Rumours," in Mohammed Qayum, ed., Essays on Malaysian Literature, Kuala Lumpur, Universiti Kebangsaan Press, 2001
• Details Cannot Body Wants (Play) in Helen Gilbert, ed., Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics, New York, Routledge, 2001
• "Monologue" from Diary of a Madwoman (Play) in Roberta Uno, ed., Monologues By Women of Color, New York, Routledge, 1999
• Localizing Pedagogy: Teaching Literature in Singapore (Co-Editor), National Institute of Education, Singapore, 1999
• In My Mother's Dream (Poems), Landmark Books, Singapore, 1999
• Playful Phoenix: Women Write for the Singapore Stage (Ed.), Theatre Works Publications, Singapore, 1996
• The Naturalization of Camellia Song (Poems), Times Editions, Singapore, 1993
• "After The Phoenix" (Essay) in Ike Ong, ed., Southeast Asia Writes Back! Skoob Books, London, 1993
• "Children of the Chinese Diaspora: A Comparison of Lee Kok Liang's Flowers in the Sky and Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men," eds. Shirley Hune et..al., Comparative and Global Dimensions in Asian-American Studies, Washington State Univ. Press, 1991
• "Hybrid Blooms: The Emergent Poetry in English of Malaysia and Singapore," Clayton Koelb   Susan Noakes, eds., The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Theory and Practice, Cornell Univ. Press, 1988
• "Playing Dangerously With Words: Translating the Poetry of Sutardji Calzoum Bachri," Bruce Bennett; ed., A Sense of Exile: Essays in the Literature of the Asia-Pacific Region, Univ. of Western Australia, 1988
• "Formlessness and Form in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End," Sagetrieb, Spring 1986
• "From Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston: Expressions of Chinese Thought in American Literature (tr.), Comparative and Foreign Literature, Shanghai, 1985; (rpt. MELUS (5, No. 2, Fall 1978)
• Poems anthologized in: Alvin Pang, ed., The City and You, Ethos Books, Singapore, 2000; Elsie Yu, ed., Women's Inspirations, Singapore, University Women's Association, 1998; Shawn Wong, ed., Asian American Literature, Harper Collins, 1995; Joel Wingard, ed., Literature, Harper Collins, 1995; Bruce Bennett, ed., Westerly Looks to Asia, Univ. of Western Australia, 1993.