Robert E. Hegel

Robert E. Hegel is an American sinologist specializing in the fiction of late imperial China. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis from 1975 until his retirement in 2018, where he held the Liselotte Dieckman Professorship of Comparative Literature and was a Professor of Chinese Language and Literature. Born in Goodrich, Michigan, he earned his Ph.D. in Chinese and Japanese Literatures in 1973.