Dr. Sid Sondergard in China

Sid Sondergard

English Department

Office: 7 University Ave, Room 101

Phone: 229-5152

email: sson@stlawu.edu

Education

• B.A. 1976 English, Wichita State University, Wichita Kansas
• Ph.D.1986 Renaissance Literature, Medieval Drama, Modern Drama, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Courses:

• Hong Kong film
• The Literature of Confucius and Confucian Tradition
• Film Theory
• Screenwriting
• Shakespeare
• Methods of Critical Analysis

Research:

Dr. Sondergard, Craig Professor of English, is the author of several books, including Sharpening her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers (2002), and The Cabala of Pegasus: An Annotated Translation of Giordano Bruno’s Cabala del cavallo pegaseo (1585) [co-authored with Madison U. Sowell]. He has published articles in journals such as The American Journal of Semiotics and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Recently, Dr. Sondergard has been studying Chinese and is working on a translation of the 18th century Chinese writer Pu Songling’s collection of short stories Strange Writings from the Liao Studio. He has traveled several times to China to do research on Pu Songling, Confucius, and the Chinese general Guangong.

Dr Sid Sondergard with stone lion in China