Emily Mae Graf
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Raum 0.11
14195 Berlin
Education and Professional Experience
2018-21 |
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, postdoc (Postdoctoral Researcher) Institute of Chinese Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
2018 |
Assistentin, postdoc (Assistant Professor) Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University / Postdoctoral Coordinatorof the DFG-funded project on “Recalibrating Culture” Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University |
2/2018 |
Ph.D. in Sinology / Transcultural Studies (summa cum laude) “Lu Xun on Display: Memory, Space, and Media in the Making of World Literary Heritage” Heidelberg University |
2014-18 |
Project Manager of “Taking China to the Schools!” Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University; supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation (2014-15) and the Confucius Institute at Heidelberg University (2016-) |
2013-14 |
Visiting-Ph.D.-Fellowship and fieldwork Renmin University of China, Beijing |
2012-18 |
Assistentin, praedoc Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University |
09/2012 |
Magister Artium in Sinology / East Asian Art History/ English Literature Heidelberg University |
2010 |
Research semester and fieldwork Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University (NTU) |
2006-07 |
Studies at the National Taiwan University, Taibei / Internship as Museum Guide the National Palace Museum, Taibei |
Teaching
WS 2019-20 |
MA seminar „China and Global Health: The Making and Unmaking of Barefoot Doctors (1960s-present)” |
SS 2019 |
MA seminar “Conflicting Memories in China: Texts, Images, and Institutions” |
SS 2018 |
MA seminar (Übung: Textlektüre und Analyse) “Voicing Criticism in China Today: The Novelist Yan Lianke” |
SS 2017 |
MA seminar (Übung: Textlektüre und Analyse) “Remembering and Forgetting: Lu Xun and Cultural Politics in the PRC” |
SS 2013 |
MA seminar (Übung: Textlektüre und Analyse) “Founding Fathers of Modern Chinese and Taiwanese Literature: Lu Xun and Lai He” |
WS 2012-13 |
BA seminar(Übung: Textlektüre) “Die Sakralisierung Lu Xuns” |
Research Interests
- Barefoot Doctors (chijiao yisheng) and China’s Role in Global Health
- Cultural Politics and Museums in the PRC and Taiwan
- The Canonization of Lu Xun (1881-1936) in the PRC and Lai He (1894-1943) in Taiwan
- Chinese Literature in a Global Context
- Materiality, Visuality, Spatiality, and the Construction of Authenticity
- Propaganda, Cult of Personality and Heroism in Historiography
- Käthe Kollwitz and the Modern Woodblock Movement in China
- The Interrelation between History, Oral History and Collective Memory