Academic Staff
Chair of Department
Dr Yiyan Wang
Room 648 Brennan MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 4512
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching interests
- Modern Chinese literature and culture
- Critical theory and cultural studies
- Dr Wang is the author of Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World (2006).
Academic Staff
Dr Derek Herforth
Room 642 Brennan/MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 3555
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching interests
- Early Chinese language and thought
- Early Chinese historiography
- Chinese narrative and argumentation from the pre-Qin period to the Tang
Dr Linda Tsung
Room 642 Brennan/MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 2868
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching interests
- Chinese linguistics,
- Second language acquisition,
- Chinese pedagogy,
- Chinese teacher training,
- Language policy,
- Minority languages, cultures and education
- Bilingualism and bilingual education.
Dr Wei Wang
Room 653, Brennan MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 4938
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching interests
- Contrastive rhetoric and discourse studies between Chinese and English,
- Translation studies,
- Second language acquisition,
- Critical discourse analysis.
Dr Yi Zheng
Room 640, Brennan MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 5226
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching interests
- Comparative and Chinese intellectual history, cultural history, aesthetics;
- Modern (including early modern) literary culture, scientific culture;
- Contemporary cultural forms and historical contexts.
Affiliated Teaching Staff
Professor Helen Dunstan
Department of History
Phone: +61 2 9351 5516
Dr David Bray
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Mills Building Room108
Phone: 9114 0970