Assistant Professor

office: 208 Tate
phone: 573-882-2239
email: change@missouri.edu
office hours: by appointment

Research and teaching areas:
Nineteenth-century British literature,
literature of the British empire,
visual culture

Elizabeth Chang

Elizabeth Chang focuses in her research and teaching on the literature and visual culture of nineteenth-century Britain, with a particular emphasis on the cultural productions of the British empire during the Victorian era. She has just completed a book-length project entitled Britain's Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century, which traces the cultural influences of Chinese places, things, and people, real and imagined, on the development of a modern British literary and visual culture in the nineteenth century. Currently she is at work on a project linking nineteenth-century urban gardens and gardening practices in Britain to the circulations of imperial commodities.

Education
PhD 2004, University of California-Berkeley

Selected Publications

• Elizabeth H. Chang. "Converting Chinese Eyes: Rev. W. H. Medhurst, "Passing," and the Victorian Vision of China." A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007.
• Elizabeth Chang. "'Eyes of the Proper Almond Shape': Blue-and-white China in the British Imaginary 1823-1883." Nineteenth-Century Studies (2005): 17-34

Courses Taught

• English 2300: Topics in American Literature
• English 3210, Section 2: Survey of British Literature, Romanticism to the Present
• English 3210: Survey of British Literature, Romanticism to the Present
• English 4250/7250: 19th-Century English Literature
• English 4250/7250: Ninteenth-Century Literature
• English 4970: Capstone
• English 8250: Seminar in 19th-Century British Literature

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