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Emma J. Teng |
Professor Teng earned her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where she specialized in Chinese colonial travel literature of the late imperial period. Her first book, Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895, a study of Chinese colonial discourses on Taiwan, places the China-Taiwan relationship in the historical context of Chinese imperial expansionism. Emma Teng was an American Fellow of the American Association for University Women (1996-97), a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanities (2000-2001), and holder of the MIT Class of 1956 Career Development Professorship (2002-2005). In 2005 she was awarded the Levitan Prize in the Humanities and was a co-winner (with Professor Erik Demaine of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) of the MIT Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. She is currently working on a manuscript comparing Chinese and Chinese American representations of Eurasian interracialism at the turn of the 20th century. She has been awarded the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and will spend next year (2007-2008) as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Teng teaches classes in Chinese literature, East Asian cultures, Asian American studies, and women's studies.
For inquiries regarding the Chinese language program, please contact Tong Chen.
Read Far Eastern Economic Review's book review of Taiwan's Imagined Geography by clicking here.
Read an interview of Professor Teng by POTS.com.tw regarding Taiwan's Imagined Geography by clicking here.
