Sarah M. Allen

Sarah M. Allen is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.  Her research focus is medieval Chinese literature, especially stories and anecdotal literature.  She is interested in the impact of manuscript culture on the composition and circulation of texts, how literary works are transformed in different genres and different modes of presentation (e.g. oral and written), and ideas about history and fiction in China and the West.  She currently working on a book manuscript on classical Chinese tales from the eighth and ninth centuries. 

Allen received her A.B. from Harvard College, her M.A. from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.  She teaches courses on the literary (classical) Chinese language, pre-modern Chinese literature and culture, and modern Chinese.

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