Department of Languages — Chinese Faculty

Shelley Wing Chan, Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Cultural Studies, teaches courses in Chinese language, literature and culture. A graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University, she earned her Master's degree in East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She taught Mandarin Chinese and Chinese Literature at Stanford University, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Beloit College, and Kalamazoo College. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, culture, and language pedagogy. She has also carried out research on Tang poetry and popular literature of the Ming Dynasty, and has studied and written about gender issues from a cross-cultural perspective. She wrote a dissertation on the fiction of Mo Yan, one of the most prominent contemporary writers in Mainland China, and is the editor of a volume of his selected stories for a Hong Kong publisher. Her articles and translations have appeared in both the U.S. and Hong Kong. She has also presented scholarly papers at professional conferences of the Association for Asian Studies, the Modern Language Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, and the American Oriental Society. She joined the Wittenberg faculty in 2004. Click here to contact her via e-mail. Tel.: (937) 327-7073. Office: 225 Hollenbeck.

Stanley L. Mickel, Retired Professor of Languages and former Chair of the Department, specializes in Chinese language and literature.  In addition to languages courses, he teaches East Asian cultures and surveys of modern Chinese literature in translation.  In 1978 he was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to do research in Taiwan, The Republic of China.  His research and writing has resulted in more than 25 scholarly articles in such periodicals as Chinese Culture, Journal of Asian Studies, and the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. The scholarly papers he presented at professional meetings earlier in his career concerned decipherment of ancient Chinese oracle bone disaster graphs.  More recently, he has mainly written on questions of how to most effectively help students learn to read and speak Chinese.  His first book, Reading Chinese Newspapers: Tactics and Skills, published in 1992, is still widely used at colleges throughout the United States.  In 1999 he published Dictionary for Readers of Modern Chinese Prose.  This book is an innovative guide to the 250 grammatical markers most frequently used in modern Chinese writings.  Mickel earned his B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.A. at the College of Chinese Culture in the Republic of China.  He was granted his Ph.D. by Indiana University.  He came to Wittenberg in 1971.  Click here to contact him via e-mail. Tel.: (937) 327-6354. Office: 226 Hollenbeck.