Fall 2009 Office Hours
On Leave
Spring 2009 Course Syllabi
- CHI 320 001 Gender Politics in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
- A&S 300 003 Popular Culture in Modern China
Research
Professor Luo’s research focuses on issues of gender, class, religion, youth and radicalism in East Asia through studies of literature, performing arts, and film, using East Asian cities as “interdisciplinary sites.” She is especially interested in the dialectics between the country and the city, the relationship between intellectuals and “the folk,” as well as the intellectual obsession of “creating new woman” in modern East Asia.
Areas of Expertise
Modern Chinese drama and film, gender politics in modern Chinese literature, Taisho Tokyo and modern China, Tian Han (1898-1968) and the cultural politics of modern China
Selected Honors and Fellowships
- 2008-2009 University of Kentucky Foreign Travel Support
- 2005-2006: Harvard University Presidential Instructional Technology Fellowship
- 2004-2005: Satoh Artcraft and Tsuchiya Foundation Merit Scholarship
- 2003-2004: Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Dissertation Fellowship
- 2002-2003: Harvard College Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
- 1999-2003: Harvard-Yenching Doctoral Fellowship
Selected Publications
Articles
- “From Lovers to Volunteers: Tian Han and the National Anthem,” in China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. Edited by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Ken Pomeranz, and Kate Merkel-Hess. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009 (originally published in The China Beat, July 16, 2008).
- “Modern Girl, Modern Men, and the Politics of Androgyny in Modern China,” Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. XLVII, no. 2 (Spring 2008), 282-308.
- “Tian Han’s White Snake Complex: Revolution, Decadence, and Modernity”, in Chinese Literature: a Dialogue between Tradition and Modernity (Zhongguo wenxue: chuantong yu xiandai de duihua). Edited by Hongsheng Zhang and Nanxiu Qian. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2007, 591-612 (in Chinese).
- “The Cross-dressed Chinese Modern Girl as Reality and Representation,” in The Language of Clothes: Status, Gender, and Law in the History of Attire in Japan, China, and Great Britain (forthcoming in Japanese translation).
Translations from English to Chinese
- Liuxing de boximiya: shijiu shiji Bali de xiandai zhuyi yu dushi wenhua (Chinese translation of Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Mary Gluck, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005). Hefei: Anhui jiaoyu chubanshe, 2008 [in press].
- “Weilian wei’erxun” (Chinese translation of Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson,” 1839); “Sifenkesi” (Chinese translation of “The Sphinx,” 1850); and Pimu lixianji (Chinese translation of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, 1838). In Ailunpo jingxuanji (Selected Works of Allan Poe). Edited by Xiangyu Liu. Shandong wenyi chubanshe, 1999, 131-150; 395-399; and 419-594.
Film Review
- “The Concrete Revolution,” review of The Concrete Revolution (dir. Xiaolu Guo, Choices Inc., 2004), in Education About Asia, published by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 69-70.
Selected Presentations
- 'March of the Volunteers' in Wartime China," Cultures of Emergency conference, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 14-16, 2009.
- “Tian Han and Contemporary Independent Filmmaking,” World Literature Today and China international conference, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, October 16-18, 2008.
- “Making Virgin and Vampire: The Modern Girl Discourses from Taisho Tokyo to Communist Beijing,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 3-6, 2008.
- “The Folk and the Avant-garde in the Making of ‘Popular Propaganda’ in Wartime China,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, MA, March 25, 2007.
- “Five Faces of Salome: Theatrical Metamorphosis from Tokyo, Shanghai, to Beijing, 1920s-1950s,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, April 6, 2006.
- “The Opera Question in Modern Chinese Revolution,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association at Princeton University, Princeton, March 25, 2006.
- “Tian Han, the White Snake, and the Hybrid Nature of Modern Chinese Culture,” Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Nanjing University (in Chinese), Nanjing, China, June 24, 2005.
- “Reality Supplements Fantasy—Imagining Paris in a Shanghai Salon,” The Seventeenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Hong Kong, August 10, 2004.
Selected Courses
- Introduction to Chinese Culture, Pre-Modern to 1840 (new course)
- Introduction to Chinese Culture, 1840 to Present (new course)
- Popular Culture in Modern China (new course)
- Gender Politics in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
- Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Film
- Writer and Society in Modern China
- The Modern Girl of China
- The Politics of Emotion in Modern China
- Literary Chinese
- Modern China and Its “Others”
- Comparative Modern East Asian Literature
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