Fan A. Shen

Department of English

Rochester Community and Technical College

University Center Rochester

Rochester, MN 55904

Website: www.acd.roch.edu/fshen/

(507)285-7518 (w) (507)285-7496 (fax)

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Graduate Study (1993) Yale University

Ph.D. (1992) Marquette University

M.A. (1986) University of Nebraska-Lincoln

B.A. (1982) Lanzhou University (China)

Certificate (1977) Northwestern University

(computer science) (China)

Certificate (1975) Worker’s University

(math, electronics) (China)

Work Experience

Professor 1994- Rochester Comm. And Tech.

College

Assistant Professor Rockland Comm. College

1991-1994 New York

Teaching Assistant Marquette University

1989-90

Instructor Marquette University

1988-90 Continuing Education

Lecturer Tianjin Institute of Light Industry

1982-85 China

Electrician 5702 Aircraft Factory

1974-1977 China

Assemblyman 5702 Aircraft Factory

1972-74 China

Farm Hand Three Gorge Commune

1968-72 China

Red Guard Cultural Revolution

1966-68 Beijing

Publications (partial listing)

Book:

Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard, University of Nebraska

Press, 2004

Articles:

“The Chinese Cultural Revolution,” Ready Reference, CA:

Salem Press, 1996.

“Yijing and Pound’s Cantos,” Paideuma 23 (Fall and Winter,

1994): 45-79.

“Teaching Critical Thinking in Freshman Composition,”

Inquiry, May 1993. (Reprinted in Critical Thinking as

An Educational Ideal, eds Wendy Oxman and Mark

Weinstein, Montclair: 1993).

“The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to

Learning Writing in English,” College Composition and

Communication, 40 (December 1989) 4:459-466.

(Reprinted in fourteen anthologies including Signs of Life

in the U.S.A. and The Little, Brown Reader.)

“Shakespeare in China: Merchant of Venice,” Asian Theater

Journal, 5 (1988) 1: 21-37.

Books Translated:

Momo by Michael Ende, Chinese Edition: Lanzhou: Gansu

Publishers, 1988.

Phases by Bernard Levegoed, Chinese Edition: Beijing:

Xinhua, 1986.

Superlearning by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder,

Chinese Edition: Gansu Publishers, 1983. (The book

Won 1988 National “Gold Key Book Award for

Translation.”)

Articles Published in Chinese:

Nineteen articles on literature, education, and politics

On such journals as China Journal (Taiwan) and

Beijing Journal of Science since 1981.