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Mei Li Inouye

Assistant Professor of Chinese

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Education

PhD in Chinese Literature from Stanford University
MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University

BIOGRAPHY

Mei Li Inouye joined the faculty of 海角论坛 in 2020. She is an assistant professor of Chinese. Her research interests include transnational exchange, gender politics, performance, memory, and transmedia studies in modern Chinese literature, theater, and visual culture. 

Mei Li's book project, 鈥淧erforming Jiang Qing (1914-1991): Gender, Performance, and Power in Modern China,鈥 examines Jiang Qing as a cultural formation, an artistic figure, and an intermedial method in order to rethink the interplay of gender, performance and power in the worlds she inhabited and the scholarship that has tried to understand those worlds. Her scholarship has been supported by a CLIR-Mellon Fellowship and a Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship. Her article on Sino-Soviet dramatic theory exchanges is forthcoming in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. 

AWARDS/GRANTS

  • Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship (2019 - 20).
  • The Council on Library and Information Resources-Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources (2018 - 19).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS

  • Association of Asian Studies; European Association for Asian Studies
  • Society of Cinema and Media Studies
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
  • Chinese Language Teachers Association

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Beginning Chinese
  • Intermediate Chinese
  • Advanced Chinese
  • Gender Performance  
  • Power in Modern China Modern Chinese

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