Research output per year
Research output per year
KY16 9PH
United Kingdom
I specialise in modern Chinese appropriations from Russian, English, and French literatures. My first book project, From Russia, with Squalor: Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism, will show how Chinese intellectuals drew upon Russian literature to write about poverty, in a bid to enrich Chinese culture by creating a syncretic new realism. Other current projects include the transformation of the Russian “superfluous man” into the Chinese “superfluous woman”; Ba Jin's appropriations from Chekhov; Xiao Hong's aesthetics of displacement and defamiliarisation; Bi Gan's adaptation of Soviet science fiction; Sino-British literary relations; and the paradigm of trans-Eurasian studies. I have published articles in journals such as Comparative Literature, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, and Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews.
Before joining the University of St Andrews, I was Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University (2022-3), and a Fellow by Examination (JRF) at Magdalen College, University of Oxford (2020-2). I earned my PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Master of Arts in Regional Studies: East Asia from Harvard University (as a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow) and a MSt in English Literature from University of Oxford (as a Von Clemm Fellow). My Bachelor of Arts (Summa cum laude, with highest departmental honors) was in English Literature at Harvard.
Sino-Russian literary relations, modern Chinese literature and film, gender and sexuality, intertextuality, trans-Eurasian studies, literary realisms, world literature, medical humanities
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
Master of Arts, Harvard University
Doctor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley
Master of Studies, University of Oxford
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review