Fields of interest:
- 17th c. British Literature; Restoration and 18th c. British Literature; Life Writing; Gender Studies.
Shirley Tung specializes in 17th-century and 18th-century studies and teaches courses in British literature that focus on literary works as sites of cultural and interpersonal contact. She is currently working on her first book, entitled A Self-Reflexive Journey: Imagining Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Travel Narrative, that examines the real-life, published accounts of popular eighteenth-century travelers as a novel form of creative autobiography in which lived experience is translated as narrative experiment.
Subject Areas:
- 18th Century British Literature and/or Culture.
