About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UW-Madison and 2018-2019 Dana-Allen dissertation fellow in the university’s Institute for Research in the Humanities. My dissertation, “Away/With the Pest: Hygienic Visuality and Narrations of the Interspecies Encounter in Modern China,” examines how modern China’s historical subject in collective forms is imagined with, through, and against the figure of the pest. Exploring literary, scientific, and ideological storytelling of the pest such as microbes, insects, and rats, I consider the dynamic human-pest relationship as an underlying force that structures modern China’s volatile biosocial relations. Education
Ph.D. candidate, Trans-Asian studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. minor, Transdisciplinary Study of Visual Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. English Literature, Peking University, China
B.A. English Literature, Peking University, China Projects
Ph.D. dissertation: “Away/With the Pest: Hygienic Visuality and Narrations of the Interspecies Encounter in Modern China.”
Future research project 1: Media Archaeology of the Body
Future research project 2: Oral History of the Third Front Campaign (sanxian jianshe) Upcoming Talks and Conferences
April 15, 2019. “Away/With the Pest: Biosocial Abjection and Subject Formation in Modern China.” Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 22, 2019. “Science on Screen: Visual Truth and Pedagogical Storytelling in China’s Early Educational Films,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Denver, Colorado
February 22, 2019. “Bacteriology in the 1950s People’s Republic of China.” Brown-Bad Lecture Series, History of Sicnece, University of Wisconsin-Madison
