Xiaojue Wang

Xiaojue Wang received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2007. She taught at Wellesley College, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania before joining Rutgers University as Associate Professor of Chinese Literature. Wang’s research interests are Chinese literature and culture from late imperial to contemporary periods, the cultural Cold War, cultural memories, film and visual studies, and comparative literature, in particular, the impact of German intellectual dynamics on modern China. She is the author of Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide (Harvard, 2013), which examines the diverse, dynamic cultural practices in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas across the 1949 Chinese divide, and re-positions modern Chinese literature in the global context of the Cold War. She has published numerous articles on modern Chinese literature, the cultural Cold War, feminism and revolution, film and visual studies, German literature, and comparative literature. She is also the Chinese translator and co-translator of Jürgen Habermas’ Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit, Horkheimer Reader, and Andreas Huyssen’s After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, among others. She is currently working on her second book, tentatively entitled The Edges of Literature: Eileen Chang and the Aesthetics of Deviation.