Vivien
Ng is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University
at Albany, SUNY. Prior to joining the Women's Studies Dept. in
Fall 1995, she taught Chinese history and women's studies at
the University of Oklahoma for 13 years. She earned her Ph.D.
in Chinese History at the University of Hawaii. She was Chair
of the Women's Studies Department from 1995 to 2000.
Ng
is currently the Associate Dean for General Education at
the University-wide level. She was President of the National
Women's Studies Association in 1993-94, and is currently the
Association's Treasurer, an elected position. She has served
on the board of the American Association of University Women
Educational Foundation from 1989-93. She was a Mellon Fellow
at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in 1984-85 and
a Rockefeller Fellow at Hunter College in 1990-91. She has served
on the editorial boards of the NWSA
Journal and
the Journal of Women's
History.
She
has published a book, Madness in Late Imperial China: From
Illness to Deviance (1990) and numerous articles. Her groundbreaking
articles include "Ideology and Sexuality: Rape Laws in Qing
China," which appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies in
1987 and "Homosexuality and the State in Late Imperial China,"
in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Lesbian and Gay Past (New
American Library, 1989). Her research and writing interests have
undergone significant change since 1995, moving from Chinese social
history to Asian American studies. She is currently writing a “biomythography” of
her maternal grandfather, a Chinese American restaurateur and filmmaker.
She has read portions of the manuscript at Hunter College (co-sponsored
by Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies), National
Women’s Studies Association conference (2004) and other venues.
Ng also writes short fiction. Her most recent story, "Redemption" is
published iin 13th Moon. She chronicles her research
and other creative projects on her website.
(She believes in free and open exchange of ideas in the pursuit
of knowledge.)
In
2008, Ng received an Innovation in Pedagogy grant from UAlbany's
Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership (ITLAL)
to develop a Women's Studies history course that incorporates
the use of 2-D animation and other interactive tools. This
course, "Transmedia Storytelling," was offered as a
pilot in Spring 2009 and will be offered again as a regular
course in Spring 2010, with cross-listing with Documentary Studies
and Journalism.
Ng
maintains the web pages for the Department of Women’s
Studies. She designs and maintains transcending
silence..., an undergraduate e-journal that she co-advises
with Janell Hobson.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., University
of Hawaii (1980)
- M.A., University
of Hawaii (1975)
- B.G.S.,
Ohio University (1972)
GRADUATE
COURSES
- Feminist
Pedagogy
- Feminist
Thought and Public Policy
- Feminist
Theory
- Research
Seminar
- Race, Gender
and Cultural Politics in Asian America
- Transmedia
Storytelling
UNDERGRADUATE
COURSES
- Classism,
Racism, Sexism
- Electronic
Publishing in Women's Studies
- Global Perspectives
on Women
- Introduction
to Lesbian and Gay Studies
- Feminist
Social and Political Thought
- History
of Women and Social Change in the U.S.
- Gender and
Nation in World Cinema
- Transmedia Storytelling
- Research
Seminar
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Madness
in Late Imperial China: From Illness to Deviance. University
of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
SHORT
FICTION
"Redemption," 13th
Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazine, 19, 1&2(2006),
pp. 144-156.
"Pandora's Box," HLFQ, 5, 3(2004), pp. 61-71.
ARTICLES
AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"Sex, Race, and Power: An Intersectional Study." In
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Jamsheed Choksy, Francesca Sautman, eds., Encyclopedia
of Sex and Power, Macmillian Reference USA, 2007.
"Race
Matters." In Andy Medhurst and Sally Munt, ed., Lesbian
and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction. Cassell, 1997,
pp. 215-232.
"Sexual
Abuse of Daughters-in-Law in Qing China: Cases from the Xing'an
huilan," Feminist Studies, 20, 2(1994),
pp. 373-391.
"Homosexuality
and the State in Late Imperial China." In Martin Duberman,
ed., Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Lesbian and Gay
Past. New American Library, 1989, pp. 76-89.
"Ideology
and Sexuality: Rape Laws in Qing China," Journal of
Asian Studies, 46, 1(1987), pp. 57-70.
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