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 51²è¹İapp College. She teaches all levels of Chinese language courses and on Chinese literature and culture. Specific classes include “Chinese Women: Past and Present,†“Modern 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—Koreans 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...