清华大学外文系讲座之一
演讲题目：Mapping the Literary Terrain of Asian American Literature in the 1970s
演讲人：Shawn Hsu Wong (徐忠雄)
Famous Chinese American author
Professor of English at University of Washington
时间：2013年5月7日（星期二）3:00– 5：00
地点：清华大学文南楼116会议室
主办单位： 清华大学外国语言文学系
清华大学比较文学与文化研究中心
演讲者简介：
Shawn Hsu Wong is an author and Professor of English at the University of Washington where he has been on faculty since 1984, including as former Director of the University Honors Program (2003-06), Chair of Department of English (1997-2002), and Director of the Creative Writing Program (1995-97). Wong, himself a Chinese American, is among the pioneers of Asian American literature during its major emergence in the 1970s. He received his undergraduate degree in English at the University of California at Berkeley (1971) and a Master's degree in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University (1974).
Wong’s first novel, Homebase, was published in 1979 and won him the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the 15th Annual Governor's Writers Day Award of Washington. His second novel, American Knees, was published in 1995 and adapted as an independent film by IFC Films in 2006 titled Americanese. He is also the co-editor and editor of six Asian American and American multicultural literary anthologies including the pioneering anthology Aiiieeeee! (Howard University Press, 1974; reprinted in four different editions, most recently by Meridian in 1997) and, The Big Aiiieeeee! (1991).
Professor Wong has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Italy. He was featured in the 1997 PBS documentary Shattering the Silences, and in the Bill Moyers' PBS documentary Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, in 2003. He is also featured in the 2005 documentary What's Wrong With Frank Chin?
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