Esther Hu

 

Lecturer, The Writing Program, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D., M.A. (English Literature and Language), Cornell University

M.A. in Teaching (English), Duke University

B.A. (English and Music, summa cum laude), Amherst College

Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 2005 as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities, Dr. Hu had taught at Cornell University (John S. Knight Institute, First-Year-Writing Seminars) and Chung Yuan Christian University (College of Humanities and Education).

Dr. Hu is an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and a Member of the Society of Chinese Military History.

Publications

Heaven and Earth: Love, War, and the Dream of China’s Destiny. Fresh translation (from Chinese) of a Chinese woman intellectual’s romance with Chiang Kai-shek’s four-star general, Hu Tsung-nan, set against the backdrop of WWII and the Chinese Civil War. With Historical and Geopolitical Introduction and Epilogue.

Under Consideration with University Press.

Book Chapters

“The Photograph,” by Yeh Hsia-Ti. Translated by Esther Hu. Renditions, No. 91, Spring 2019. First Chapter of General Hu and Dr. Yeh’s love story.

“Reflections on Grandmother Yeh Hsia-Ti’s Life of Faith.” In President Hsia-Ti Yeh’s Centenary Festschrift, Chinese Culture University and the National Taipei University of Education, 2014.