TOY-FUNG TUNG

Professor Tung received her MA and PhD from Columbia University, respectively, in Comparative Early Modern and Medieval Literature.   Her specialty is French and German Medieval Romances.   Her 2005 dissertation, on Chrétien de Troyes, is the basis for a book project, and her other research interests include Augustine, 12th century historian-theologians, and Latin influences.

Before coming to John Jay, she taught at New Jersey City University and worked for more than a decade at a top-tier New York law firm, where she did legal editing and research.   At John Jay, she is committed to the pre-law programs and has a strong interest in developing law and literature, and other interdisciplinary, courses.   With a global orientation, she has done extensive research in medieval Indian and Tibetan literature, and has written and lectured on a seminal 14th century Buddhist philosopher.   After studying with Buddhist scholars, she published a translation of a Tibetan verse biography of an 8th century saint and is now collaborating on a verse and prose translation of the biography of a contemporary spiritual teacher.