平特五不中

Grace Fong is Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Studies, 平特五不中. She received her PhD in classical Chinese poetry from the University of British Columbia. She teaches courses on Chinese culture, poetry, fiction, and women writers, as well as Classical Chinese. Her research encompasses classical Chinese poetry and poetics, women writers of late imperial China, and autobiographical writing in pre-modern China. Engaged in exploring the potential of developments in digital humanities for new modes of critical inquiry in the domain of literary studies, she has been directing the since its inception in 2003. Launched by the 平特五不中 Library in 2005, the website provides free access to digitized images and searchable data of women鈥檚 literary collections and anthologies from Late Imperial China for research on women鈥檚 history and culture. 聽She is editor of the聽Women and Gender in China Studies聽series published by Brill. Her recent publications include the monograph聽Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (University of Hawaii Press, 2008) and the co-edited volumes聽Different Worlds of Discourse: The Transformation of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China聽(Brill, 2008) and聽The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing聽(Brill, 2010). Her latest translations of women鈥檚 poetry appear in聽Jade Mirror: Women Poets of China聽(White Pine Press, 2013).