Faculty Profiles

Jing Jiang joined the Reed faculty in 2006 and is Professor of Chinese and Humanities. She received a BA and a MA in English Language and Literature from Nanjing University Peking University respectively, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. She specializes in 20th-century Chinese literature and culture, with particular interests in the question of translation and transnational approaches to the study of literature.  At Reed, she teaches courses on modern Chinese literature, post-socialist and Sinophone film, and participates in the team-taught Chinese Humanities course. She regularly serves as a member of the Film and Media Studies committee and Comparative Literature Committee. Also, she teaches the Chinese language at the intermediate and advanced levels. She has published on the writer Xiao Hong, early modern Chinese drama, Feng Xiaogang’s film, and Chinese science fiction (an AAS Short book). Her current book-length research project, tentatively titled “The World Embedded in Modern Chinese Literary Imagination,” received support from the inaugural ACLS Fellowship in Chinese and Comparative Literature.