Liying Sun
The University of Iowa, Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2019-2022
I received my Ph.D. in Modern Chinese Studies from Heidelberg University, Germany, in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, I was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Humanities Program at the University of Southern California (USC). From 2019 to 2022, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Iowa. My research focuses on modern Chinese visual media history and popular culture. Trained in interdisciplinary methods, I employ texts and images in the popular press to approach literary history, art history, body history, film history as well as the history of race, gender, sexuality, and censorship from transcultural perspectives. I engage new digital methods and was co-creator, co-editor, and coordinator of two databases that contain images, texts, and metadata on 240+ Chinese women’s journals and entertainment newspapers published in the early 20th century (see details under “Research”). I have been teaching Chinese and global magazine culture, transnational Chinese cinemas, Chinese popular culture, and the Chinese language at all levels at universities and language training programs in China, Germany, and the United States.
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