Christopher M. B. Nugent Assistant Professor of Chinese cnugent@williams.edu Stetson F14, x3701 [Areas of Expertise and Interest]: Tang dynasty literary and manuscript culture Textual and oral circulation of poetry Second/Foreign Language Pedagogy Memory and memorization [Selected Publications]:   Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China. Monograph forthcoming from Harvard University Asia Center Press. Review of Graham Sanders, Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition, The University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 78:1, pp. 221-222. 「唐代长安诗歌的流传」(“The Circulation of Tang Poetry in Chang‘an”), in Chen Pingyuan 陈平原, et al., eds.《西安：都市想象与文化记忆》("Xi’an: Metropolitan Imagination and Cultural Memory"), Beijing University Press, 2009. "The Lady and Her Scribes: Dealing with the Multiple Dunhuang Copies of Wei Zhuang’s ‘Lament of the Lady of Qin’,” Asia Major, vol. 20 (2007), pp. 25-73. " Literary Collections in Tang Dynasty China,” T’oung Pao, vol. 93 (2007), pp. 1-52. Editorial committee member, 汉语900句 (Everyday Chinese), Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2006.   [Courses Frequently Taught]:  (CHIN) Basic Written Chinese (CHIN 121) Introduction to Classical Chinese (CHIN 412) Cultural Foundations: The Literature and History of Early China (CHIN 224) China on Screen (CHIN 235) Crises and Critiques: The Literature and Intellectual History of Early 20th Century China (CHIN 251) [Education]: B.A. Religious Studies, Brown University, 1991 Ph. D. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2004

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