Mei Li Inouye
Assistant Professor of Chinese
Offices & Programs
Education
PhD in Chinese Literature from Stanford University
MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University
BIOGRAPHY
Mei Li Inouye joined the faculty of Centre College in 2020. She is an assistant professor of Chinese. Her research interests include transnational exchange, gender politics, performance, memory, and transmedia studies in modern Chinese literature, theater, and visual culture.
Mei Li's book project, “Performing Jiang Qing (1914-1991): Gender, Performance, and Power in Modern China,” examines Jiang Qing as a cultural formation, an artistic figure, and an intermedial method in order to rethink the interplay of gender, performance and power in the worlds she inhabited and the scholarship that has tried to understand those worlds. Her scholarship has been supported by a CLIR-Mellon Fellowship and a Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship. Her article on Sino-Soviet dramatic theory exchanges is forthcoming in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China.
AWARDS/GRANTS
Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship (2019 - 20).
The Council on Library and Information Resources-Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources (2018 - 19).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Asian Studies; European Association for Asian Studies; Society of Cinema and Media Studies; American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; Chinese Language Teachers Association.
COURSES TAUGHT
Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Chinese
Gender Performance, and Power in Modern China
Modern Chinese.