Charles Q. Wu

Charles Q. Wu was born and raised in Shanghai, China. He went to college at Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (now Beijing Foreign Studies University) in 1951 and graduated as an English major in 1954. In 1980 he went to Columbia University for graduate studies in English literature and earned a PhD in 1987. His doctoral dissertation was a Daoist reading of the English romantic poet William Wordsworth. Dr. Charles Q. Wu taught Chinese language, literature, and civilization at Reed College from 1987 to 2002, where he is currently Professor Emeritus.