Chris Chan is the Graduate Coordinator, since October 2024, for the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). He received his B.A. (hons., summa cum laude) in English and Chemistry from Rutgers University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. 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.

After receiving his Ph.D., Chris completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Ghent University ('UGent,' Belgium, 2021-24), where he taught B.A. and M.A. courses in English Literature 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 (directed by Andrew Bricker), for which he successfully co-authored the proposal for the EU-funded research project DELIAH: Democratic Literacy and Humour (2025-29). Chris' scholarship has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Eighteenth-Century Life, and he has also contributed to the Dutch-language Belgian newspaper De Morgen.

Outside of his work for Penn, Chris runs ABC Editing Services, an independent business that offers editorial support to researchers writing across the disciplines. His previous professional experience includes roles in education consultancy and pharmaceuticals. Please feel free to get in touch with him—via email or LinkedIn—for more information.