Friday, Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 noon, Ballantine Room 004 Listen to this archived broadcast. Lin Zou (EALC, IU) “Drinking Games, Transcendence, and the Performance of Mundane Details"

Lin Zou

Lin Zou received her Ph.D. in August 2003 from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on a comparative study of modern Chinese, English and French literatures. Her current research and teaching interests center on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film, the modern transformation, commercialization, and consumption of classical Chinese aesthetics, aesthetic theory, and theory of emotions and subjective agency. She also recieved her M.A. degree in Sociology and M.A. degree in English Literature. From 1992 to 1995, she taught sociology as a senior lecturer at Southeast University in China. From 1997 to 2003, she taught literature classes at UC Berkeley as a graduate student instructor, and in 2003 as a lecturer. These classes focused on issues of gender, sexuality, the ideology of landscape, cosmopolitanism, and modernist subjectivity in modern Chinese and Western literature and cinema.