Jingjing Cai

BIOGRAPHY

Jingjing Cai joined the Centre College faculty in 2022 as an assistant professor of Chinese. Before joining Centre, she taught at Indiana University, Penn State University Harrisburg, and College of the Holy Cross.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Dissertation Year Research Fellowship 2015 Indiana University, support one-year dissertation research

• Louise McNutt Fellowship 2010 Indiana University, support one-year graduate study

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

She has published research articles, critical essays, and book and film reviews in both scholarly journals, including Asian Women, Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, Chinese Literature Today, as well as in the popular press. She currently works on a monograph that examines the intersection between gender and technology in Chinese science fiction.

• Cai, J. "An Inquiry into Gender and Queer Issues in Chinese-language Sci-fi Film: A Case Study of The Soul," accepted and forthcoming in the Journal of Chinese Film Studies.

• Cai, J. "Intersectionality and Decentralized Narrative: The Creative Use of the Multiverse in Everything Everywhere All at Once." Inquiry and Criticism no. 10 (2024): 54-75.

• Cai, J., and S. Chen. "Developing Film-Based Teaching Materials for an Advanced Chinese Class." In Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China, edited by Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, and Hongmei Yu, 269-286. New York: Modern Language Association, 2024.

• Cai, J. "Reproductive Technologies and the Future of Motherhood in Chen Qiufan’s 'In This Moment We Are Happy'." Asian Women 37, no. 4 (2021): 1-22.

• Cai, J., and S. Chen. "The Application of Films in Advanced Chinese Language Courses: A Cooperative-Collaborative Learning Model." Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching 11, no. 1 (2020): 84-113.

Book Review

• Cai, J. 2022. “Review of Feminism with Chinese Characteristics, edited by Hui Faye Xiao.” Chinese Literature and Thought Today 53, no. 1-2: 154.

Film Review

• Cai, J. 2023. "Exploring the Surge: Chinese Sci-Fi in Film and TV – The Wandering Earth and Beyond." Phoenix Weekly 824, no. 6: 92-94.

COURSES TAUGHT

• Chinese Cinema and Hollywood
• Chinese Culture through Camera’s eye
• Masterpieces of Chinese Literature
• Chinese Science Fiction
• Chinese Civilization
• Introduction to Chinese Culture
• First-Year Chinese
• Second Year Chinese
• Third Year Chinese
• Fourth Year Chinese

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

• Member. Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), 2013-present
• Admin for Facebook and WeChat groups. CLTA Chinese Film Study and Teaching Special Interest Group, 2016-present
• Member. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 2012-present
• Member. Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 2011-present