Title
Professor of Chinese (1982), Colgate University

Degree
BA, MA, University of California at Berkeley, 1962, 1965; PhD, University of Washington, 1973

Teaching Experience
The Bishop's School, La Jolla, CA; Connecticut College; Indiana University; University of Washington; University of Oregon

Specialties
Chinese language and literature, women in China

Interests
East-West literary relations, poetry (Chinese and French), Baudelaire in China

Selected Publications
Co-editor with Arthur W. Biddle et al, Contemporary Literature of Asia (Prentice Hall, 1996)
Co-editor with A.W. Biddle and V. Darwadkar, Global Voices (Prentice Hall 1995)
"Chenier and China" (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 1986)
"Baudelaire in China" (Comparative Literature Studies, 1985)
"The Shih Ching in French Literature" (Tamkang Review, 1975)
Additional articles in Tamkang Review, Pacific Coast Philology, Critical Bibliography of French Literature: Twentieth Century, Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, Explorations: Essays in Comparative Literature (University Press of America, 1986)
Translation in Renditions (1975)
Reviews in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, America, Literary Research/Recherche litteraire

Distinctions
AAUW fellowship 1980-81; visiting scholar, University of California, Berkeley 1993, Stanford 1980-81; NEH seminars 1980, 1983

Board Membership
Chinese Language Teachers Association 2003-2006; Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association Editorial Board, 2004-present