Lu, Sheldon H. 1962-
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—[email protected].
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.