Géraldine Fiss

Géraldine Fiss (許潔琳) received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and is an Associate Teaching Professor in Inter-Asia and Transpacific Studies at UCSD Literature, where she teaches modern Chinese literature, film, intellectual history, and aesthetics. Her research focuses on Chinese literary and cinematic modernisms; Chinese-German literary, poetic, and cinematic encounters; Chinese women’s literature and film; Chinese science fiction; and Chinese ecocritical discourses. She also studies the classical East Asian humanities and their continued influence on contemporary literature, culture, and thought. In her current work, she examines modern and contemporary Chinese poetry and cinema, and the trans-cultural influences that inform these literary and visual modes. She is the author of “From Du Fu to Rilke and Back: Feng Zhi’s Modernist Aesthetics and Poetic Practice” in Chinese Poetic Modernisms (Brill, 2019) and is currently writing a book titled Chinese-German Encounters in the Early 20th Century: Textual Travels and Traveling Texts.

Pronouns: she/her

Languages: English, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish

Affiliated Faculty: Chinese Studies Program, Study of Religion Program

Articles & Book Chapters

• “In Memoriam of Yingjin Zhang: Introduction.” Chinese Literature and Thought Today (CLTT) Special Issue In Memoriam of Yingjin Zhang, vol. 54, No. 1-2, 2023, 5-12.
• “Black Night Consciousness and Ecofeminist Poetics in the Works of Zhai Yongming.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, volume 76, no. 1, Spring 2022. 62-82.
• “Zheng Min.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 387: Chinese Poets Since 1949. Gale, 2021. 323-329.
• “From Du Fu to Rilke and Back: Feng Zhi’s Modernist Aesthetics and Poetic Practice.” Chinese Poetic Modernisms. Brill, 2019. 38-56.
• “Ding Ling’s Feminist Writings: New Women in Crisis of Subjectivity.” Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature. Routledge, 2019. 343-355.
• “Münchhausen Travels to China: Xu Nianci Transforms a German Tale into Chinese Science Fiction.” A New Literary History of Modern China. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. 196-201.
• “Beyond Boundaries: Women, Writing, and Visuality in Contemporary China.” Introduction to Frontiers of Literary Studies in China Special Issue Women, Writing and Visuality in Contemporary China, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017. 1-6.
• “Feminine and Masculine Dimensions of Feminist Thought and Transcultural Modernism in Republican China.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China Special Issue Nation, Gender and Transcultural Modernism in Republican China, vol. 8, no. 1, 2014. 101-125.

Book Reviews

• Review of Emily Sun, On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China, forthcoming in CLEAR: Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews.
• Review of Christopher Lupke, A History of Taiwan Literature: Ye Shitao. Cambria Press, 2020. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, volume 76, no. 1, Spring 2022. 145-147.
• Review of Catherine Vance Yeh. The Chinese Political Novel: Migration of a World Genre. Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. PRISM: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, vol. 17, no. 1, 2020. 199-202.
• Featured Scholar Interview with Professor Christopher Lupke: Paving the Way for New Canons. Chinese Literature Today, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017. 116-121.
• Review of Sabina Knight. Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2012. China Review International, vol. 22, no. 3 & 4, 2017. 202-206.
• Review of Liang Luo. The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics. The University of Michigan, 2014. The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 75, no. 3, 2016. 814-815.
• Review of Heather Inwood. Verse Going Viral: China’s New Media Scenes. University of Washington Press, 2014. The China Quarterly, vol. 223, 2015. 846-847.
• Géraldine. Review of Alexa Huang. Weltliteratur und Welttheater: Ästhetischer Humanismus in der kulturellen Globalisierung. Transcript Verlag Bielefeld, 2012. Cahiers Élisabéthains, vol. 85, 2014. 136-139.
• Review of Theodore Huters. Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China. University of Hawai’i Press, 2005. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 60, no. 2, 2006. 71-74.
• Review of Patrick Hanan. Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Columbia University Press, 2004. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 60, no. 2, 2006. 74-76.

• Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2008
• B.A. in East Asian Languages and Literatures, Smith College, 1997