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Gal Gvili - Graduate Program Director
Academic title(s):
Associate Professor
Department:
East Asian Studies
Office:
272
Biography:
Gal Gvili studies and teaches modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in , , , ,聽Inter-Asia Cultural Studies聽and the edited volume . Her book (Columbia University Press, 2022, Winner of the Harry Levin First Book Award in Comparative Literature, ACLA) examines how the image of India, in particular, Chinese writers鈥� multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections, shaped the making of a new literature in the twentieth century.
Her current project, tentatively titled Possessed: Superstition and Gender in Modern Chinese Literature examines how gender and superstition are co-constituted by exploring the literary portrayal of superstitious persons in Chinese literature of the 20th and 21 centuries. The study contributes a literary perspective to a growing body of scholarship鈥攆rom religion studies, history, anthropology, gender and women studies鈥攐n the historical formation and contemporary endurance of the discursive construct 鈥渟uperstition鈥� in governance, culture, and gendering practices of former colonial spaces.
Area(s):
China
Research areas:
Chinese Literature
Areas of interest:
Research Interests:聽China-India literary relations in the modern era, literary theory, postcolonial criticism, gender studies, religion聽studies.
Group:
Associate Professor