Robert Hegel

Title:	Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature in Arts & Sciences Professor of Chinese Language & Literature
Degree:	PHD, Columbia University MA, Columbia University BA, Michigan State University
Dept:	Comparative Literature
Office:	Busch Hall 6
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1111 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-7476
E-mail:	rhegel@wustl.edu

Courses
Chinese Civilization; Introduction to East Asian Religions; Literature of Early and Imperial China; The Chinese Theater; Literature and Film from Asia and the Near East

Research Interests
Narrative forms and conventions in late imperial China (i.e. roughly 1500-1900), book culture, practices of reading and writing, legal writing, and conceptions of right and wrong as implicit in narrative texts of all forms.

Selected Publications:

Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Expressions of Self in Chinese Literature, edited with Richard C. Hessney. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

The Novel in Seventeenth Century China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

"Dreaming the Past: Memory and Continuity beyond the Ming Fall." In Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature, ed. Wilt Idema, Wai-yee Li, and Ellen Widmer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press Asia Studies Center, 2005), 345-371.

"Conclusions: Judgements on the Ends of Times." in Dynastic Decline and Cultural Innovation: Late Ming and Late Qing, ed. David Wang and Shang Wei (Cambridge: Harvard University PRess Asia Studies Center, 2005), 523-548.