Linshan Jiang
Title
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Department
History
Information
- Curriculum Vitae/Personal Webpage
- [email protected]
- Miller Library 246
Current Courses
CRS | Title | Sec |
---|---|---|
HI146 | Modern East Asian History, 1600-Present | A |
HI297 | Gender and Sexuality in Modern China | A |
HI298 | Mythologies and Legends in Chinese History and Culture | A |
HI397B | Trauma and Memory in Modern East Asia | A |
Linshan Jiang is a Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian history and culture at Colby College. She was a Postdoctoral Associate of Chinese Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also obtained a Ph.D. emphasis in Translation Studies.
Her research interests include modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Her primary research project focuses on female writers’ war experiences and memories of the Asia-Pacific War, entitled Women Writing War Memories. Her second research project explores how queerness is performed in Sinophone queer cultural productions.
She has published articles in literature and culture as well as translations of scholarly and popular works in Chinese and English. She has been making a podcast named Gleaners with her friends for more than ten years and she is also a host of the East Asian Studies channel for the New Books Network.