A/Prof. Sue Chen

children's literature, childhood studies, Victorian literature, book history, print culture

Member of:

• International Research Society for Children’s Literature
• Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (Elected Board Member 2016-2018)
• Chinese Studies Association of Australia
 

ALL 153 - Literature for Children and Young Adults

ALL 154 - Power Politics And Texts For Young People

ALL 350 - Travelling Ideas and Transnational Children's Literature

Victorian and Edwardian Children's Literature

Chinese Children's Literature

Young Adult Fiction

Book History

Recent conference presentations

• ‘The Child’s Paper and the Nineteenth Century Transnational Flow of Print Culture’, ‘Shifting Landscapes: Diversity, Text and Young People’: Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research conference, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga,13-15 July 2016.

• “The King of Formosa”: Fictionalizing Koxinga in William Dalton’s The War Tiger (1858), Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory Conference, Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, 27-28 May 2016.

• ‘Visual Representations of Chinese Childhood in the Xiaohai yuebao (1875-1915) and Mengxue bao (1897-1903)’, Conference on Childhood and Visual Texts in/of Asia, Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan, 14 November 2015.

• ‘Representations of China in Australian and British Children’s Fiction, 1890-1910’, Contested Histories and the Politics of Memory: 3rd Foundation for Australian Studies in China (FASIC) Conference, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 22-25 October 2015.

• ‘Chinese Childhood in the Mengxue bao (The Children’s Educator, 1897-1906)’, Creating Childhoods: IRSCL 22nd Biennial Congress, University of Worcester, UK, 9-12 August 2015.

• ‘Chih-Yuan Chen’s Picture Books: Hybridity, Nostalgia and Translation’, Taiwan: The View from the South Conference, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, 6-9 January 2015.

• ‘“We have many a good cry’: The role of affect in early 20th century missionary recitations’, Emotional control: 2014 Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research conference, Deakin University, Australia, 30 June – 2 July 2014.

• ‘To favourably impress the Oriental mind with western knowledge’: Xiaohai yuebao (The Child’s Paper), missionaries, and the circulation of ideas, 1875-1915, Reading Communities and the Circulation of Print conference, Australian National University, 22-24 April 2014.

• ‘China through a Child’s Eyes: George Thomas Staunton’s Journal of a Voyage to China (1792-94)’, Romantic China: Cultural Relations between China and the West in the Later Qing Period colloquium, University of Sydney, University of Sydney, Australia, 25-26 Nov 2013.

• ‘“Time for Taiwan”: Tourism, Media, and Soft Power’, Chinese Soft Power and Culture: Between Complicity and Independence workshop, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 20 Nov 2013.

• ‘Reading Practices in the 1980s and the “Book Series Fever”’, China’s Transformations in the 1970s and 1980s, International Workshop at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 26-27 July 2013.

• ‘Journeys in Chinese Cyberspace: Baozuomanhua (Rage Comics), Internet Humour, and Everyday Life’, Chinese Studies Association of Australia - 13th Biennial Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. 9-11 July 2013.

• ‘“Crazy Thirst for Knowledge”: Chinese Readers and the 1980s “Book Series Fever”’, Researching the Reading Experience, Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, Oslo, Norway. 11-12 June 2013.

• ‘Exploring Individual Aspirations through Self-Help Books of the 1980s’, I Want to Fly High: Chinese Aspirations in the 1980s Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 18-19 Feb 2013.

• International Research Society for Children’s Literature Research Award (2015)

• Australian National University PhD Graduate School Scholarship (2006-2009)
• University of Canberra Chancellor’s Commendation Award (2003)
• University of British Columbia St. John’s College Sir Quo-Wei Lee Fellowship (2000-2001)
• University of British Columbia Faculty of Graduate Studies International Graduate Tuition Scholarship (2000-2001)
• Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship (1999-2000)

Grants

• National Library of Australia Fellowship (2017)

• Deakin University Central Research Grant (2016)

• Deakin University Faculty of Arts and Education Fieldwork Grant (2015)

• Deakin University Faculty of Arts and Education Conference Support Grant (2014, 2015)

• Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Australian National University (2011-2014)

• Australian National University Research School of Asia & the Pacific Travel Grant for Early and Mid-Career Researchers (2013)

• Australian National University Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Grant for Conference Attendance (2008)

• Schmidt and Altholz Travel Award presented by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (2008)

• Taiwan Ministry of Education Grant: “Happily Ever After”: Creative Fairytales and English Learning (Principal Investigator) (2004-2005)

• Taiwan Ministry of Education Grant: Improving University-level Reading and Writing Proficiencies in Chinese and English in an Information Age (Co-investigator) (2003-2006)