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Charles M. Tung, PhD — Faculty - Leadership ; Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Professor of English ; Asian Studies Program - Department of English , College of Arts & Sciences .
Vice Provost for Academic Programs
Professor of English
Biography
Welcome Statement: I began as a student of Romanticism and the lyric, but a number of factors, including acute hay fever, pushed me quickly into modernism. The focus of my doctoral work was early 20th-century British and American literature and time philosophy. I am also interested in race and atavism, models of history and identity in cultural and ethnic studies, and time-travel narratives. I have a real weakness for popular culture, especially bad Hollywood films and love songs.
Education
BA, English, Georgetown University
MPhil, Modern English Literature, University of Oxford
PhD, English, University of California, Berkeley
Courses Taught
- Modernism in Art and Literature
- Modernism, Time Travel, and Alternate Histories
- Asian American Literature: What Is “Ethnic” American Literature?
- Literary and Cultural Theory: History and the Deep Future
Publications
- . Critical Studies in Modernist Culture series. Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- “Viral Transmission and Speculative Media Epidemiology in Deep Time.” In Mediating Deep Time. Rutgers University Press, forthcoming.
- “Plastinated Vitruvian Man, the Datafication of Race, and Transracial Transfer in Westworld and Altered Carbon.” In , edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta Niu, and Christopher T. Fan, Rutgers University Press, 2025.
- “Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock.” In , edited by Alex Goody and Ian Whittington. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- “Posthistory Today: Historical Time and Virality after Flusser.” In , edited by Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini, and Michael F. Miller. Bloomsbury Press, 2021.