Dr. Sondergard, Piskor Professor of English, is the author of several books including Sharpening her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers (2002), and The Cabala of Pegasus: An Annotated Translation of Giordano Bruno’s Cabala del cavallo pegaseo (1585)[co-authored with Madison U. Sowell]. He is currently at work on the first complete English translation of Pu Songling's liaozhai zhi yi (Strange Tales from Liaozhai), in six volumes; the first five volumes are already in print (Jain Publishing, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012).  He has published articles in many journals, such as The American Journal of Semiotics, Studies in Philology, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Studies in the Humanities. Dr. Sondergard regularly offers courses on screenwriting and film studies, and has traveled several times to China to do research on Pu Songling, Confucius, and the Chinese general, Guan Yu.