Department of Language and Literature
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Wilson C. Chen
Assistant Professor (Literature)
Kindlon 267
wchen@ben.edu
office | 630.829.6288
fax | 630.960.4805
office hours (fall 2008) |
MW 3-4 pm;
TR 4:30-6:30 pm
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Education
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine | 2003
M.A., University of California, Irvine | 1995
B.A., University of California, Berkeley | 1991
Research Interests
Dr. Chen’s areas of specialization include twentieth-century U.S. literature, African-American literature, and rhetoric/composition. His research focuses on such topics as African-American literary responses to U.S. empire in the early twentieth century; pedagogical intersections between postcolonial/diasporic studies and composition studies; C. L. R. James’s writings on African-American social movements; and Edwidge Danticat’s fiction.
Courses Taught
HUMN 250 | The Contemporary World
LITR 255 | American Literature I
LITR 256 | American Literature II
LITR 279 | U.S. Multiethnic Literature
LITR 280 | African-American Literature
LITR 291/391 |
Postcolonial/Third World Literature and Theory
LITR 399 | Senior Seminar
