Rania Huntington

(Ph.D. Harvard)
Assistant Head of Department
Assistant Professor EALC:

Chinese language and literature,the classical tale (wenyan)

217-333-8879
hntngtn@uiuc.edu

Professor Huntington specializes in premodern Chinese literature, with emphasis on fiction and drama. Her current research interests include the classical tale (wenyan xiaoshuo), literature of the fantastic, and the portrayal of women in literature. Recent publications include "Foxes and Sex in Late Imperial Chinese Narrative"(in Nannu, spring 2000) and Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative (forthcoming, East Asia Monograph series, Harvard University Press.) Professor Huntington received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1996.