Dr. Shunchang Kevin Tsai

Assistant Professor of Chinese

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature

Education

Princeton University PhD in Comparative Literature, 2008 Dissertation: “The Allusive Manufacture of Men in Chinese and Latin Literature”
The University of Texas MA in Classical Philology, 1999 Thesis: “Usurping the Voice: Textuality and Tradition in Isocrates” at Austin Harvard University:
AB in Classics, 1997

“Brotherhood and Chinese Drama: the Case of Killing a Dog,” the Journal of the American Oriental Society (accepted pending revision)
“Translating Chinese Poetry with a Forked Tongue,” Yearbook of Comparative Literature 54(2008): 166-74.
“Hellish Love: Genre in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae [On the Rape of Persephone],” Helios 34(2007): 37-68.
“Ritual and Gender in the ‘Tale of Li Wa,’” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 26(2004): 99-127.
“Courtesans in Chinese Literature,” The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution (Greenwood Press, 2006).
“Petronius”; in The Encyclopedia of World History (Facts on File, 2008).

“What God What Hero What Hand,” Classical and Modern Literature 24.1(2004).
“Fire at Naxos,” Classical and Modern Literature 24.1(2004).
“A Narrow Porthole,” Perihelion 2.7(2003).
“Upward Mobility, Musically,” Perihelion 2.7(2003).
“A Body Historically,” Salamander 7(2001).
“Letter to a Daughter,” Del Sol Review 4(2000); reprinted in Del Sol

Review Anthology.
“Votive,” Del Sol Review 4(2000); reprinted in Del Sol Review Anthology.

“A Boundary Dispatch Monte Carlo (Exodus) Method for Analysis of Conductive Transfer Problems,” Numerical Heat Transfer 24(1993): 475-488; earlier version in G.P. Peterson and M.M. Yovanovich, edd.
Fundamental Problems in Conduction Heat Transfer (ASME, 1992): 31-36; presented at National Heat Transfer Conference, San Diego, August 1992.