Dr. Melody Yunzi Li is currently an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Houston. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis an MPhil degree in Translation Studies at the University of Hong Kong and a BA in English/Translation Studies from Sun Yat-sen University China.
She taught at Transylvania University and Lenoir-Rhyne University before joining the University of Houston as an Assistant Professor in August 2018. Dr. Li also was a visiting scholar at Harvard University 2015-2016.
Her research interests include Asian diaspora literature modern Chinese literature and culture migration studies translation studies cultural identities and performance studies.
She is the author of Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the U.S. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 2023) and the co-editor of Remapping the Homeland: Affective Geographies and Cultures of the Chinese Diaspora. (London: Palgrave McMillan 2022). She has published in various journals including Pacific Coast Philology Telos and others. Besides her specialty in Chinese literature Dr. Li is also a Chinese dancer and translator.
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Free // Door: 6pm // Interview/Reading/Discussion: 7pm
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Spine Indie Bookstore & Cafe, 1982 Arsenal St., St. Louis, United States
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