Chinese Theater Collaborative

Contributors


Please find a list of our contributors, with links to their work, below.

Olivia Bobak

Olivia Bobak is a 2024 graduate of the Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in international relations and Chinese. She hopes to use her education to foster interest in Chinese-American cultural exchange and promote understanding.

Wenbo Chang

Wenbo Chang (PhD, Arizona State University) is a lecturer of Chinese in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia. Her primary research interest is premodern Chinese literature with a focus on drama and performance texts at the intersection of literary studies, social history, ritual, power, and women’s studies.

Cruz (Wenhao) Guan 

Cruz (Wenhao) Guan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Ohio State University. His dissertation focuses on the transformation of China from an empire to a modern nation-state from 1800 to 1937 based on the influences of cartography, modern education system, print culture, and Shanghai’s publishing industry.

Julia Keblinska

Julia Keblinska is a visiting scholar at the Ohio State University and the content co-editor of CTC. She received her doctorate in Chinese, with a Designated Emphasis in the Department of Film and Media, from the University of California, Berkeley (2021).

Ka Kei Lau

Ka Kei Lau is PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She received a Writing MFA from Columbia University and a BA in English from the University of Oxford. 

Xuezhao Li

Xuezhao Li is a PhD candidate in Chinese Literature from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University, interested in Digital Humanities, modern Chinese genre fiction, literary translation in late Qing and early republican China, and the transcultural history of Chinese drama, etc. 

Francesco Papani

Francesco Papani (he/him) is a PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and a teaching assistant at Arizona State University. His research interests are traditional Chinese drama and its contemporary operatic adaptations as well as East Asian performance studies. 

Patricia Sieber

Patricia Sieber is professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University. She is the founding editor and content co-editor of CTC.

Xiaoqiao Xu

Xiaoqiao Xu (PhD, University of Connecticut) is a lecturer at the University of British Columbia. She teaches Chinese literature and cinema courses and researches late imperial and modern Chinese literature and culture. 

Erxin Wang

Erxin Wang completed her Ph. D. at The Ohio State University in 2024, specializing in the literature, theater, and literati culture of late imperial China. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chinese Studies at National University of Singapore.

Hui Yao

Hui Yao is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University and a lecturer of Chinese at Duke Kunshan University. Her research interests include modern Chinese literature, cinema, theater, and literary translation.

Kaixuan (Kai) Yao

Kaixuan (Kai) Yao is a PhD student at the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 

Xuan Ye

Xuan Ye graduated from Ohio State University with a focus on Chinese linguistics and Chinese operas (Department of East Asian Languages and Literature). She is currently the academic coordinator for the Chinese Flagship Program at Indiana University.

Patricia J. Yu

Patricia J. Yu is assistant professor of art history at Kenyon College where she teaches broadly on the arts of Asia. Her research focuses on the afterlives of the Garden of Perfect Brightness, as well as broader questions of authenticity and reproduction, ruin and reconstruction, and art in cross-cultural translation. 

Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang 

Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang (PhD, Ohio State University) is a research associate at the Harvard FAS CAMLab. Her research examines painting and print in early modern China, with a focus on trans-mediality and transcultural interactions.

Li Zhao

Li Zhao is a PhD student specializing in Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the Ohio State University. Li is the editorial associate of CTC.

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