Paul Fischer

Assistant Professor of East Asian Intellectual History
Department of Philosophy and Religion, WKU

Interests: Premodern Chinese Culture (religion, philosophy, syncretism, literature, textual criticism, excavated texts, art)

PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2007

Publications:

"The Creation of Daoism", (in progress)
"Atheology, or Why Chinese Religions Matter, (under review)
Shizi: China's First Syncretist, Columbia University Press, 2012
"Intertextuality in the Shi Zi," Asia Major, 22.2 (2009): 1-34
"Authentication Studies Methodology and the Polymorphous Text Paradigm,"Early China, 32 (2008-09): 1-44