Winnie Chan

Winnie Chan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her contact details include the email wchan@vcu.edu and phone number (804) 827-8314, located in Hibbs Hall, room 314.

• Education:
  • PhD in Postcolonial Literature Education, University of Virginia
  • AB in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Chan’s research focuses on World Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and British Literature after 1832. Her work explores intersections of cultural identity, literary form, and historical context, particularly in late 19th- to 21st-century British and global texts.

Her publications include contributions to major encyclopedias and a monograph on the economic dynamics of short stories in Victorian-era periodicals. These works reflect interests in Victorian Print Culture, Diaspora Narratives, and Modernist Urban Fiction, with a focus on transnational literary networks.

Dr. Chan has co-authored entries in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies and Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, alongside her book The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s (Routledge, 2007).