Christopher M. B. Nugent

Assistant Professor of Chinese


cnugent@williams.edu
Stetson F14, x3701

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

Tang dynasty literary and manuscript culture
Textual and oral circulation of poetry
Second/Foreign Language Pedagogy
Memory and memorization

[Selected Publications]:  

"The Lady and Her Scribes: Dealing with the Multiple Dunhuang Copies of Wei Zhuang's 'Lament of the Lady of Qin'," Asia Major, vol. 20 (2007), pp. 25-73.
"Literary Collections in Tang Dynasty China," T'oung Pao, vol. 93 (2007), pp. 1-52.

[Courses Frequently Taught]:  (CHIN)

Basic Written Chinese (CHIN 121)
Introduction to Classical Chinese (CHIN 412)
Cultural Foundations: The Literature and History of Early China (CHIN 224)
China on Screen (CHIN 235)
Crises and Critiques: The Literature and Intellectual History of Early 20th Century China (CHIN 251)

[Education]:

B.A. Religious Studies, Brown University, 1991
Ph. D. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2004

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