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Gal Gvili - Graduate Program Director

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Gal Gvili - Graduate Program Director
Contact Information
Address: 

680聽Sherbrooke St West,
Montr茅al, Qu茅bec
H3A 2M7

Phone: 
514-398-5854
Email address: 
gal.gvili [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
East Asian Studies
Office: 
272
Biography: 

Gal Gvili studies and teaches modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in , , , ,聽Inter-Asia Cultural Studies聽and the edited volume . Her book (Columbia University Press, 2022, Winner of the Harry Levin First Book Award in Comparative Literature, ACLA) examines how the image of India, in particular, Chinese writers鈥 multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections, shaped the making of a new literature in the twentieth century.

Her current project, tentatively titled Possessed: Superstition and Gender in Modern Chinese Literature examines how gender and superstition are co-constituted by exploring the literary portrayal of superstitious persons in Chinese literature of the 20th and 21 centuries. The study contributes a literary perspective to a growing body of scholarship鈥攆rom religion studies, history, anthropology, gender and women studies鈥攐n the historical formation and contemporary endurance of the discursive construct 鈥渟uperstition鈥 in governance, culture, and gendering practices of former colonial spaces.

Area(s): 
China
Research areas: 
Chinese Literature
Areas of interest: 

Research Interests:聽China-India literary relations in the modern era, literary theory, postcolonial criticism, gender studies, religion聽studies.

Group: 
Associate Professor
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