Kaia Johnson's research focuses on gender and sexuality in Ming & Qing dynasty literature. Before coming to Harvard, she studied Chinese Language and Culture as well as Psychology at U.C. Berkeley, before earning her M.A. in Chinese literature at...
Noah Weber studies Chinese aesthetic thought on language, writing, and script and articulates its relevance to modern and contemporary Sinophone literature. He is also interested in writing technology, print history, and calligraphy. Noah holds an M.A. in...
Julie Yau Lee Chan is a student of early modern Chinese literature. Her research interests revolve around theatre, performance, and media studies. Prior to joining Harvard, she received her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from the Chinese...
Rachel McVeigh comes to Harvard with a B.A. in Chinese from Oxford and a Master’s in pre-modern Chinese literature from Peking University, where she wrote her thesis on “Form and Change in the Elegiac Poetry of Early Medieval China”. She works on the...
Suiyun Pan received his BA degree with Highest Honors in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his senior thesis on femmes fatales in both Chinese and Greek literary traditions. He also holds an MA...
Yufan Chen works on modern and contemporary Chinese-language literature, poststructuralist literary theory, and feminist and queer theory. His current research centers on the intersection of violence, literary form, and the politics and ethics of reading...
Jonah Katz is a student of late imperial Chinese literature. He received his M.A. in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and an Honors B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Utah. His current research focuses on the history of the...
Benjamin Orion Landauer studies Chinese poetry, with a primary interest in authorial identity and compositional practices in Medieval poetry. They also research modern Chinese poetry from the Republican and Post-socialist periods, and have spent time...
Amy Zhang holds a B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Nankai University. She received her second M.A. from Regional Studies—East Asia at Harvard University in 2019 with a focus in pre-modern Chinese literary culture. Her research...
Cathy Shen is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) of premodern Chinese literature and comparative literature at Harvard University. She specializes in literature of the Middle Period (Six Dynasties and Tang) and is interested in poetic emotion, affect theory, genre...
