Fellow 2025-2026 Wendy Larson
Wendy Larson is Professor Emerita of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Oregon. She earned her PhD in Oriental Languages from the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Larson’s research explores how Chinese writers and filmmakers engage with modernity, post-modernity, socialism, post-socialism, and globalization.
Her notable publications include Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture (Cambria Press, 2017), From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China(Stanford UP, 2009), Women and Writing in Modern China (Stanford UP, 1998), and Literary Authority and the Chinese Writer: Ambivalence and Autobiography (Duke UP, 1991). She has also translated Wang Meng’s Bolshevik Salute (Washington UP, 1991) and co-edited Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and Inside Out: Modernism and Postmodernism in Chinese Literary Culture (Aarhus UP, 1993). Her forthcoming monograph, Cultural Optimism in Chinese Socialism and American Capitalism: Global Good Cheer, will be published by Oxford University Press. Prof. Larson has studied at Beijing University and Taiwan National University and held fellowships at prestigious institutions, including the University of Sydney, National University of Singapore, East China Normal University, and the University of Aarhus, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. In spring 2025, she will join The Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University as a fellow, focusing on Nobel laureate Mo Yan.
