New Editor at Chinese Literature

Tom Mullaney
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Dissertation Reviews is very happy to welcome a new editor to Chinese Literature, Justyna Jaguscik. We are also pleased to congratulate Lucas Klein, who will continue to work with Chinese Literature, on his promotion to Assistant Managing Editor. If you are interested in having your dissertation reviewed, please fill out the Review Application Form. You can reach Justyna at justyna.jaguscik@dissertationreviews.org.

Introducing Our Field Editor

Justyna Jaguscik is a lecturer and postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Zurich. She has recently concluded her PhD project on “Literary Body Discourses: Body, Gender and Class Difference in Contemporary Chinese Female-Authored Poetry and Fiction.” In her dissertation she examined distinct body poetics and rhetoric within, and the critical responses to, works by several female authors. In this interdisciplinary project, she combined close readings of poetic works with inquiries into the roles the individual authors have played in the changing intellectual landscape of post-socialist China.

Justyna teaches pre-modern and modern Chinese literature in addition to gender studies. Currently she is redrafting her dissertation into her first monograph publication. She has published several papers on Chinese literature and social stratification in Polish, German and English.

Image: Sanguo yan yi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong (circa 1330–1400). Wikimedia Commons.

Post written by: Tom Mullaney

Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History at Stanford University, having received his Ph.D. in History in 2006 from Columbia University. He is the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (University of California Press, 2011, Foreword by Benedict Anderson). This book charts the history of China’s 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie), a joint social scientific-Communist state expedition wherein a group of ethnologists, linguists, and Party cadres traveled to the most ethnically diverse province in the People’s Republic to determine which minority communities would and would not be officially recognized by the state. He is also principal editor of Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority, a pathbreaking volume that examines China’s majority ethnonational group. He is currently writing the first-ever global history of the Chinese typewriter, one of the most significant and misunderstood technological innovations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.