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SINKWAN CHENG

Sinkwan Cheng is the editor of Law, Justice, and
Power: Between Reason and Will
(Stanford University Press, 2004). Contributors to this volume include Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, J. Hillis Miller, Alain Badiou, Nancy Fraser, and Ernesto Laclau. Prof. Cheng has taught in Berlin and New York, and has given lectures and faculty seminars in the United States, Germany, England, and Hong Kong. In addition to her Stanford volume, Prof. Cheng has also published in Cardozo Law Review, Literature and Psychology, and American Journal of Semiotics. Along with Fredric Jameson, Russell Grigg, and Parveen Adams, she served on the Advisory Board of American-Lacanian-Link. She was also a member of the Editorial Board of Umbr(a) West. Currently, she serves on the Advisory Board of (a): the journal of culture and the unconscious, a Lacanian journal edited by Juliet Flower MacCannell and Dean MacCannell.

Prof. Cheng was the recipient of four fellowships and grants in the recent five years. When completing her Ph.D. degree at SUNY Buffalo, she won an Excellence in Teaching Award in a campus-wide competition, and was subsequently employed by the Office of Teaching Effectiveness to train teaching assistants.

 

 


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