Sherry Mou

Sherry J. Mou is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Language in the Modern Languages Department and Asian Studies. Since joining the DePauw faculty in 2002,  Professor Mou has offered courses in both modern and classical Chinese literature,  including Chinese Theater and Chinese Cinema; she will teach Modern Chinese  Literature;  and Chinese Women Writers. Professor Mou received her B.A. in English  and American Literatures from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan, M.A. in  English from Northern Illinois University, and M.A. in Modern Chinese Literature and  Ph.D. in Classical Chinese Women’s History from The Ohio State University.

 Professor Mou has published articles, reviews, and translations in both English and  Chinese. She is the editor of Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literary   Tradition (St. Martin’s, 1999); she guest-edited the Winter 2001-2002 issue of Chinese Studies in History, entitled “Women Warrior in China.” She is also the author of  Gentlemen’s Prescriptions for Women’s Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of  Chinese Women (forthcoming by M.E. Sharpe), which explores the development of the  tradition of women’s biographies in Chinese official histories during the first millennium.  The book was funded in part by an NEH summer grant and Wellesley’s faculty award.  Her current research includes women warriors in Chinese history and literature.

smou@depauw.edu