Chinese and Japanese Faculty
Professor
Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature
Email: fengjin@grinnell.edu
Jin Feng is Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at 涩里番. She teaches all levels of Chinese language courses and on Chinese literature and culture. Specific classes include 鈥淐hinese Women: Past and Present,鈥 鈥淢odern China through...
Assistant Professor
Email: seongeun@grinnell.edu
My research focuses on cultural interactions between Japanese and Koreans in the process of decolonization across a wide range of media, including literature, theater, and performance, with a particular interest in the history of Zainichi Koreans鈥擪oreans who migrated to Japan under Japanese colonial...

Associate Professor
Email: tangqiao@grinnell.edu
Trained a literary scholar, my research and teaching engage a diverse array of literary texts from pre-modern China. I am particularly interested in the relationships between gender and genre, literature and politics, and poetry and painting of medieval China. My first book project, based on my...

Assistant Professor
Email: yangdong@grinnell.edu
I primarily work on and write about comparative intellectual history and global avant-garde cinema. As a die-hard comparatist, I am currently interested in how Chinese artists and intellectuals from the twentieth century onward interpret, problematize, and reconfigure western discourse on modernity...