Lan Dong is the Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. She served as Chair of the Department English and Modern Languages (2017-2019), Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2021-2022), and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2022-2023). She was a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellow in 2015, working on faculty development initiatives, faculty and staff handbooks, student petitions, and international student advising. She was a Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service Faculty Fellow (2020-2022), conducting research on accessibility, inclusive pedagogy, and open educational resources. She has received many honors and recognitions including University Scholar, Pearson Faculty Award, Faculty Excellence Award, Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award, Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Award, and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship.
Books
Edited Books
- Transnationalism and the Asian American Heroine: Essays on Literature, Film, Myth and Media (2010)
- Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice (2012)
- Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms (2016)
- 25 Events That Shaped Asian American History (2019)
Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters (since 2020)
- "Girlhood Reimagined: Malaka Gharib's Graphic Memoirs." Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17.3 (2024).
- “Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wang’s In Real Life.” Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 77.2 (2023).
- “Multilingual and Multicultural Childhood: Robin Ha’s Almost American Girl.” Journal of Literary Multilingualism 1.2 (2023).
- “(Un)Masking a Chinese American Superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero,” in Beyond the Icon: Asian North American Graphic Narratives, edited by Eleanor Ty. The Ohio State University Press, 2022.
- “Mapping Social Differences in the Virtual Classroom: Inclusive Multimodal Texts and Learner-Centered Design,” in A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing across the Humanities, edited by Vuslat Katsanis and Kristin Coffey. Vernon Press, 2022.
- “History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior,” in Women’s Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, edited by Nahir I. Otano Gracia and Daniel Armenti. University of Wales Press, 2022.
- “Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature,” in Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- “Drawing Childhood and Politics: Malik Sajad’s Munnu A Boy from Kashmir.” Studies in Comics 12.1 (2021).
- “Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clement Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories.” Inks: The Journal of The Comics Studies Society, 5.3 (2021).
- “Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints,” in Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Asian American literature and culture
Children's and young adult literature
Comics and graphic narratives
Women writers
World literature