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Beata Grant
Title:Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Director, Religious Studies
Degree:PHD, Stanford University
MA, Stanford University
BA, University of Arizona
Dept:Religious Studies
Women & Gender Studies
Office:Busch Hall 114C
Mailbox: Full Mailing Address
Phone:(314) 935-8577
E-mail:bgrant@wustl.edu

Courses
Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures Senior Seminar: Religion and Literature; Reading Seminar in Gender and Chinese Literature: Writing Women of Imperial China; Introduction to Buddhism

Research Interests
Chinese religion and literature, Pre-modern Chinese women's literature and culture, Buddhism.

Selected Publications:

(with W.L. Idema) The Red Brush: Women Writers of Imperial China. Asia Center Harvard University, 2004.

Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003.

Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih (1037-1107). Honolulu: University of Hawi'i Press, 1994.

"Behind the Empty Gate: Buddhist Nun-Poets in Late-Ming and Qing China" in Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism, ed. Marsha Weidner. Honlulu: Univesrity of Hawai'i Press, 2001.

"Little Vimalakirti: Buddhism and Poetry in the Writings of Lady Scholar Chiang Chu (1764-1804)," in Harriet Zurndorfer, Ed., New Directions in the Study of Women in Mid to Late Imperial China. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999.