Profile

Biography

Linshan Jiang is an Assistant Professor of East Asian History and Culture at Missouri State University. Previously, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colby College and a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also obtained a Ph.D. emphasis in Translation Studies. Her research interests include modern East Asian history and culture; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; sound and media studies; podcast studies; comparative literature; translation studies. Her current book manuscript, titled Women Writing War Memories, focuses on women writers’ war experiences and memories of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Asia-Pacific War. Her second research project explores how queerness is performed in Sinophone queer cultural productions. She has published articles on literature and media culture as well as translations of scholarly and popular works in Chinese and English. She has been making a podcast named Gleaners with her friends for more than ten years and she is also a host for the East Asian Studies channel on the New Books Network.

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Education

• Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
• M.A., Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• B.A., English, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China

Teaching

• History 380: Premodern East Asia
• History 597/697: Gender in China
• History 776: Memory Studies in East Asia (1)

Professional experience

Articles

• “Gendering Displacement: Nieh Hualing’s Re-membering Refugee Students during the Second Sino-Japanese War.” Memory Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 2024, pp. 21–38.
• “Queer Vocals and Stardom on Chinese TV: Case Studies of Wu Tsing-Fong and Zhou Shen.” Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness, edited by Jamie J. Zhao. Hong Kong University Press, 2023, pp. 145–160.
• “Transforming Emotional Regime: Pai Hsien-yung’s Crystal Boys.” Queer Cats Journal of LGBTQ Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2019, pp. 87–105.
• “Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuan’s The Love that is Temporary and A Farewell Letter.” Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century (Sinophone and Taiwan Studies Series), edited by Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan. Springer, 2023, pp. 125–133.
• “Navigating Transmedia Storytelling and Franchising in Chinese BL: Heaven Official’s Blessing.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Resource Center Publication, 2023, https://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/linshan-jiang/.
• “Queering the Intergenerational Remembrance of the White Terror.” Taiwan Insight, 2023, https://taiwaninsight.org/2023/05/04/queering-the-intergenerational-remembrance-of-the-white-terror/.
• “My Mentor, Tu Laoshi.” Taiwan Insight, 2025, https://taiwaninsight.org/2025/06/11/my-phd-mentor-tu-laoshi/.

Reviews

• “Embodied Histories: Dancing War by Eiko Otake and Wen Hui.” Dance Chronicle, vol. 47, no. 3, 2024, pp. 634–38.
• “‘Rage is a Virtue’: Re-reading Lin Yi-Han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise.” Taiwan Insight, 2024, https://taiwaninsight.org/2024/07/10/rage-is-a-virtue-re-reading-lin-yi-hans-fang-si-chis-first-love-paradise/

Research and professional interests

• modern East Asian history and culture
• memory studies
• gender studies
• queer studies
• media studies
• translation studies