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Grace S Fong - Prof. Emerita

Grace Fong is Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Studies, 91社区. She received her PhD in classical Chinese poetry from the University of British Columbia. She teaches courses on Chinese culture, poetry, fiction, and women writers, as well as Classical Chinese. Her research encompasses classical Chinese poetry and poetics, women writers of late imperial China, and autobiographical writing in pre-modern China. Engaged in exploring the potential of developments in digital humanities for new modes of critical inquiry in the domain of literary studies, she has been directing the since its inception in 2003. Launched by the 91社区 Library in 2005, the website provides free access to digitized images and searchable data of women鈥檚 literary collections and anthologies from Late Imperial China for research on women鈥檚 history and culture. She is editor of the Women and Gender in China Studies series published by Brill. Her recent publications include the monograph Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (University of Hawaii Press, 2008) and the co-edited volumes Different Worlds of Discourse: The Transformation of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China (Brill, 2008) and The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing (Brill, 2010). Her latest translations of women鈥檚 poetry appear in Jade Mirror: Women Poets of China (White Pine Press, 2013).

Areas of expertise:
Classical Chinese poetry, Literary Theory and Criticism, Gender and Women's Writing.

Research areas:
Chinese Literature

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Thomas Lamarre - Prof.听Emeritus

Thomas Lamarre's research centers on the history of media, thought, and material culture. He has written on communication networks in 9th century Japan (Uncovering Heian Japan); silent cinema and the global imaginary (Shadows on the Screen听2005); animation technologies (The Anime Machine, 2009) and infrastructure ecologies (The Anime Ecology, forthcoming 2018). He is co-editor with Takayuki Tatsumi of a book series with the听University of Minnesota Press听entitled 鈥淧arallel Futures,鈥� which centers on Japanese Speculative fiction.听His current research on animation addresses the use of animals in the formation of media networks associated with colonialism and extraterritorial empire, and the consequent politics of animism and speciesism.听听For further details see:听

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Robin Yates - Prof.听Emeritus

Research areas:听
Chinese History

Areas of interest:听
Early and Traditional Chinese History, Historical Theory, Archaeology of China, Traditional Popular Culture, Chinese Poetry

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