Chris Chan is the Graduate Coordinator for the Department of English at Penn. He received his B.A. (hons., summa cum laude, 2013) in English and chemistry from Rutgers University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees (2015, 2020) in English from Penn. His dissertation, Communal Lyricisms and the Lyricization of English Poetry, 1650–1790, was a co-recipient of the Department's Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize (2020).

After receiving his Ph.D., Chris completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Ghent University ('UGent,' Belgium, 2021-24), where he taught courses for the Department of Literary Studies. At UGent, he also served as Grant Writer and Project Manager for HACIDA: Humor and Conflict in the Digital Age under the direction of Andrew Bricker. His scholarship has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Eighteenth-Century Life.

Outside of his work for Penn, Chris runs ABC Editing Services, an independent business that offers editorial support to researchers writing across the academic genres and disciplines. He also has previous professional experience in education consultancy and pharmaceuticals; find out more on his LinkedIn page.