Tung-An Wei

Tung-An Wei is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature. She received an MA in Classics from NYU and a BA in Foreign Languages and Literature from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. She just defended her dissertation, “Resisting the Reader: Textual Recalcitrance in British Novels, 1917-2011" in April 2021. She is interested in modern and contemporary British literature, narrative theory, the history of the novel, and the rewritings of ancient Greek literature. At the University of Maryland, she has taught Academic Writing, Fantasy Literature, Film Art in a Global Society, Global Literature and Social Change, Literature of Science and Technology, and World Literature by Women. During AY18-19 she worked as an academic advisor in the English Undergraduate Studies Office.