Kimberly A. Besio Associate Professor of East Asian Studies [Chinese] East Asian Studies Affiliated Department(s):   International Studies

Phone: 207-859-4412 Fax: 859-4705 Email: kabesio@colby.edu Mailing Address: 4400 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8844 Office Hours: M, W 12:30-1:30; Tu, Th 10:00-11:00 and by appt. Semester Schedule

Education

B.A. University of Hawaii at Manoa; M.A. Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley

Areas of Expertise:

Late imperial Chinese fiction and drama Construction of gender in late imperial China Chinese language pedagogy

Professional Information

She has taught Chinese language and literature at both Berkeley and the University of Minnesota, and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. Her research interests center on traditional Chinese fiction and drama, and gender construction in pre-modern China. She has published articles related to these topics in Ming Studies, CHINOPERL Papers, Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. In 1996 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei, Taiwan. Professor Besio teaches courses in Chinese language and Chinese literature in translation.