Doctoral Student in Asian Languages and Cultures
About
My research examines the aesthetic representation of violence in late imperial Chinese literature, with a focus on Ming-Qing fiction and drama. I explore how narrative form, performative structure, and supernatural motifs—such as ghosts, spirits, and karmic retribution—construct violence not merely as a theme, but as a formal and sensory problem. Drawing on approaches from literary studies, art history, and philosophical aesthetics, I explore how acts of violence, framed as spectacle and rupture, serve as aesthetic engines within late imperial narrative traditions. In doing so, I consider how such narrative strategies contribute to broader questions of fictionality and literary modernity in times of social and cosmological uncertainty.
Research Interests
China; Ming-Qing Literature; Gender; Theater and Visual Culture
Languages (other than English):
- Mandarin Chinese
- Classical Chinese
- French
- Manchu
- Japanese
