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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
- Modernism and Time Machines. 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 Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, 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 The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology, edited by Alex Goody and Ian Whittington. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- “Posthistory Today: Historical Time and Virality after Flusser.” In Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism, edited by Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini, and Michael F. Miller. Bloomsbury Press, 2021.