{"id":1356,"date":"2013-10-21T21:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english-dev\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=1356"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:58:40","slug":"nan-ma-3","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/staff\/nan-ma-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Nan Ma, Ph.D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nan Ma was born in Beijing and moved to Texas with her family in her teens.\u00a0 As an undergraduate student, she studied Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University before pursuing her passion for literature.\u00a0 Her love for the written word is grounded in her belief that powerful writing impels us to see beyond our individual lives and make more meaningful, expansive connections with the world.<\/p>\n<p>She received her Ph.D. from the Department of English at the University of California, Riverside, in 2009.\u00a0 Her areas of teaching and research interests include Rhetoric and Composition, Ethnic American Literatures, 20<sup>th<\/sup>&#8211; &amp; 21<sup>st<\/sup>-Century American Literature, and Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies.\u00a0 Her scholarly work has appeared in <i>Translation Review<\/i> and the anthology <i>Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse<\/i>. She also has an abiding interest in creative writing.\u00a0 Her creative essays in Chinese have appeared in <i>World Journal<\/i> and other Chinese language newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the Bellevue College community, she has taught at the University of California, Riverside, Grinnell College, and Nanjing University, where she received a merit award for teaching excellence.\u00a0 She loves teaching and is eager to share her appreciation for the beauty and power of language and literature with her students at BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":991,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1356","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1356\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}