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Wilson C. Chen

Wilson C. Chen
Assistant Professor (Literature)

Kindlon 267
wchen@ben.edu
office | 630.829.6288
fax | 630.960.4805

office hours (spring 2010) |
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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 291/391 | African-American Autobiography
LITR 399 | Senior Seminar
WRIT 101 | Person in Community: Writing Seminar


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