Lu, Sheldon H. 1962-

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LU, Sheldon H. 1962-

PERSONAL:

Born November 29, 1962, in China; naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Zhi (an administrator) and Peidan (an administrator) Lu; married Lan Feng (marriage ended); married Anzhela Matyukhina (an accountant), February 9, 2005. Ethnicity: "Asian." Education: University of Wisconsin—Madison, B.A., 1984; Indiana University, Ph.D., 1990. Politics: Liberal.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Comparative Literature Program, University of California, Sproul Hall, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616. E-mail—shlu@ucdavis.edu.

CAREER:

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, began as assistant professor, became associate professor, 1992-2002; University of California, Davis, professor of comparative literature, 2002—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fulbright scholar in Ukraine, 2004-05.

WRITINGS:

From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 1994.

(Editor and contributor) Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI), 1997.

China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 2001.

Wenhua-jingxiang-shixuwe (title means "Culture-Mirror Image-Poetics"), Tianjin People's Press (Tianjin, China), 2002.

(Editor, with Emilie Yue-yu Yeh) Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI), 2005.

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