Contact Information

Office: 3063 JFSB

Phone: 422-1505

E-mail: steven_riep@byu.edu

Office Hours:
Mondays 10:00-10:50 a.m., Wednesdays 4:30-5:30 p.m., and by appointment during fall semester.

Courses Taught:
Chinese 344, 345R, 443, 444, 495
Asian/Comp Lit 342 and Honors 303R

Website: http://asiane.byu.edu/chinese/index.php?content=people/steven_riep

Steve Riep specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and culture. Prior to coming to BYU, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; California State University, East Bay; and at the University of California, Davis, where he was a postdoctoral faculty fellow from 2001-2003. He lived and traveled in Asia for more than seven years including spending a year as a Rotary International Foundation Ambassadorial Fellowship recipient (1987-1988) and a year as a Fulbright Research Fellow and American Council of Learned Societies-Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellow (1994-1995) in Taipei, Taiwan. His current research projects explore the relationship between religion and women's emancipation in the short stories of the May Fourth-era writer Xu Dishan, emerging ecocritical consciousness in the essays of the Taiwan writer Yang Mu, and the depiction of visual disabilities in post-Mao Chinese cinema. His long term book project focuses on literature and visual culture under Nationalist rule in Taiwan from 1949-1999.

Recent Publications:

“A War of Wounds: Disability, Disfigurement, and Anti-Heroic Portrayals of the War of Resistance against Japan.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 20.1 (Spring 2008), pp. 129-172.

"The View from the Buckwheat Field: Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian." In Christopher Lupke, ed., New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 47-64.

"Reunification Reconsidered: Rethinking Recovery of the Mainland in Post-1949 Fiction and Film from Taiwan." In The Proceedings of the 2006 UCSB Conference in Taiwan Studies: Taiwan Literature and History, Center for Taiwan Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2007, pp. 133-154.

"Xu Dishan." In Thomas Moran, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949 Volume 328, Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. for Gale Research, 2007, pp. 250-256.

Degrees

BA, U. of California, Berkeley, Chinese and Political Economy
MA, PhD UCLA, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Modern Chinese Literature

Interests

Modern and contemporary transnational Chinese literature and film; cultural production under authoritarian regimes; ecocriticism; disability studies; and war, memory, and trauma in film and literature.