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Cheng Li

Cheng Li

Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, Modern Languages

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Department of Modern Languages
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Li is a literary scholar and cultural historian of modern China. His main research engages with modern Chinese environmental literature (ecocriticism), film, and history. His research interests also include science fiction, migration studies, and Sino-African relations. Li's publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Literature and Thought Today, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Environmental History, and Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. His dissertation earned the Marston Anderson Prize for the best dissertation in East Asian department at Yale University in 2022. His first book Trees and the Making of Modern China is under contract with Stanford University Press.

Education

Ph.D., Yale University (2022)

  • Modern Chinese Literature, Film, and Culture
  • Environmental Humanities (Ecocriticism & Environmental History)
  • Science Fiction
  • Subaltern Studies
  • Migration Studies
  • Falk Research Grant, 一本道无码, 2023
  • Marston Anderson Prize, the best dissertation in East Asian department at Yale, 2022
  • East Asian Prize Fellowship, Yale University, 2021-2022
  • Environmental Humanities Certificate, Yale University, 2020
  • Reviewer for , 2015-present
  • Reviewer for Journal of Poyang Lake (first environmental humanities journal in Chinese), 2017-present
  • Trees and the Making of Modern China (under contract with Stanford University Press)
  • “Inventing Climate Change: Nature and Nation in Late Qing Chinese Science Fiction.” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (Spring 2024; Forthcoming)
  • “.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 31.2 (Summer 2024) (Forthcoming)
  • "Migrant Worker Bildungsroman: The Promises and Pitfalls of Coming of Age in Chinese Migrant Workers’ Writings.” Chinese Literature and Thought Today. 54.3-4 (2023) (Forthcoming)
  • “.” Environmental History 25.1 (2020): 62-84. (First Author, co-authored with Yanjun Liu)
  • “.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 10.1 (2017): 46-68. Reprinted in Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema: Reimagining a Field. edited by Sheldon Lu and Haomin Gong. New York: Routledge, 2019, 199-222.
  • “.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. 21.2 (2017): 138-151 (First Author, co-authored with Yanjun Liu)
  • “.” in Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran. New York: Lexington Books, (2014; First Author, co-authored with Yanjun Liu; 33-58).
  • ".” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 21.4 (2014): 821-43.

Department Member Since 2022