Shiamin克瓦语

Shiamin克瓦语 is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜. 她收到了M。.A. 和Ph值.D. in Chinese Literature from 哈佛大学 and her B.A. in English Literature from 达特茅斯学院. Her written work explores relationships between form and content, 文本和图像, self and self-presentation, 表面和深度, and the conflicts between what we say and what we mean. Her research interests include theater and fiction, 食品研究, 图形的故事, 文学研究, 文化研究, comparative and world literature, and literary and narrative theory. 她是……的作者 Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend (with Wilt Idema, 2010), Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei’s Four Cries of a Gibbon (2013), Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century for the Comics Studies (2020)和 Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic (2023). Her published articles analyze a broad variety of topics, including Italian opera, contemporary Chinese literature, and North American and European 图形的故事. She has contributed essays for major reference works on world literature, 中国戏剧, 文学理论, and comic book studies. Her sabbatical research in 2019-2020 was supported by the American Philosophical Society. In 2019, she received 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜’s Rosalyn R. Schwartz Teaching Award.

To learn more about some of Kwa's courses, click on the links below:

• 发人深思 - Bryn Mawr Alumnae 公告
• Using Everything but the Table to Look at East Asian Literature and Film
• Translations and Adaptations of Classical Chinese Poetry
• Animals, Vegetables, Minerals: Art and Environment in East Asia
• Gareth Brookes Artist Residency Spring 2019

所选文章:

• “Symmetry and the Quest for Justice in Leonardo Sciascia’s Il Consiglio d’Egitto.” Italica, 3 (2003): 353-370. PDF
   
• “The Unbearable Lightness of Meaning in Verdi’s Rigoletto.” 威尔第论坛, 30/31 (2004): 26-36.
   
• “The Shape of Things: Locating the Self in Xu Wei’s The Zen Master Yu Has a Voluptuous Dream” in Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema. 176-91. Ed. Maghiel van Crevel et al. 莱顿:布里尔，2009. PDF
   
• “Comics at the Surface: Michael DeForge’s 蚁群.” 词 & Image: a Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 32.4 (2016): 340-359. PDF
   
• “Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell’s Graphic Auto-fiction” in Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women’s Literature: Thresholds in Women’s Writing. 247-263. Ed. 克里斯汀我. Jacobson等人. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. PDF
   
• “The Common Place: The Poetics of the Pedestrian in Kevin Huizenga’s 一曲终” in Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion & 图形的故事. 232-248. Eds. Assaf Gamzou and Kenneth Koltun-Fromm. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. PDF
   
• “In Box: Text and the Speech Bubble in the Digital Age” in The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, ed. 弗雷德里克Aldama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
   
• “Can’t Get There from Here: Deictic Will and the Mapped Life in Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) 31.1 (2019): 47-78.
   
• “Mixed with All the Hokum and Bally Hooey”: Chinese Food in America.” Feature book review of From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States 刘海明著. China Review International, 23/1 (2016): 1-9. PDF