Dr. Géraldine Fiss

Biography

Géraldine Fiss received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2008. She is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Inter-Asia Transpacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she teaches modern Chinese literature, film, intellectual history, and aesthetics. Her research interests encompass Chinese literary and cinematic modernisms, Chinese-German literary and poetic encounters, Chinese women’s literature and film, Chinese science fiction, and eco-critical discourses rooted in Chinese context. Dr. Fiss explores the continuing influence of classical East Asian humanities on contemporary literature and thought. Her current work investigates modern and contemporary Chinese poetry and cinema, with a focus on trans-cultural influences that inform literary and visual modes. Notably, she is the author of 'From Du Fu to Rilke Back: Feng Zhi’s Modernist Aesthetics and Poetic Practice,' featured in 'Chinese Poetic Modernisms' (Brill, 2019), and is presently writing a book titled 'Chinese-German Encounters in the Early 20th Century: Textual Travels and Traveling Texts.' She is fluent in English, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, and Swedish.

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