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