Tom Lavallee Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Office: Peck 2334 Phone: (618) 650-3301 tlavale@siue.edu
Courses Elementary Chinese 101 & 102 Intermediate Chinese 201 & 202 FL111D Introduction to Chinese Culture IS324 Interdisciplinary Studies: Land and People of Asia IS400 History, Culture and Language of China – Beijing Human Geography and Chinese Language Field School GBA 489 School of Business Travel Study to China http://www.siue.edu/business/international/china.shtml For more information on study abroad in China please visit the Study Abroad website: http://www.siue.edu/studyabroad/ Faculty advisor for The East Asian Culture Organization (TEACO)  Education B.A. English, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, 1989 B.A. Chinese, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, 1992 M.A. Chinese Literature, Washington University, 1994 PhD Chinese and Comparative Literature, Washington University, 2004 Research Interests  Tourism and Leisure in China, Chinese poetry, Chinese film, advertising strategies in China, Chinese art history, social customs of China, Taiwan Studies. Essays and Articles in East Asia International Forum "Formality and Pleasure in Jian’an Banquet Poetry" "Pleasure and the Hermeneutics of Drunkeness"
Department Of Foreign Languages and Literature SIUE