Title: Visiting Professor

Discipline: Comparative Culture

Email: daviddu_swufe@163.com

Introduction: Visiting Professor, SWUFE-UD Institute of Data Science at SWUFE, a tenured professor in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Vassar College

Education

Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, Comparative Literature & Chinese, 1992

M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, Comparative Literature, 1984

B.A., Fudan University, British and American Literature, 1982

Academic Appointments

Visiting Professor, SWUFE-UD Institute of Data Science at SWUFE, 2022-Present

Specially Invited (Tepin) Professor, National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, 2017-2019

Chair of the Department of Chinese & Japanese, Vassar College, 2006-2008

Tenured faculty member in comparative literature and Asian studies at Vassar College, 2001-present

President of CHINOPERL (association for Chinese Oral and Performing Literature based in USA), 2007-present

Specialty & Achievement

Recent Teaching: Practical English Writing, Drama and Film, Comparative Phonetics

Research Interests: East-West Comparative Drama, Theatre, Film, Performing Arts, Linguistics and Popular Culture