My teaching interests include premodern Chinese drama and fiction, Chinese history, translation, gender and sexuality, 17th-century culture, and classical Chinese. Courses I have taught at the University of Michigan include the lecture course ASIAN 260 “Introduction to Chinese Civilization,” which fulfills the college’s R&E requirement; undergraduate seminars “China Around the World: From Ancient Wisdom to World Literature,” “Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Premodern China,” and “Sensuous Pleasures: China’s Forbidden Novel, Jin Ping Mei”; the advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar “Three Kingdoms Lab: From History to Video Games”; and graduate seminars “Technologies of Culture in Early Modern China,” “Theoretical Foundations of Asian Studies: Language and Power in Premodern Asia,” and “Humanistic Studies of Historical and Contemporary China.”
