About
Amy Dooling is a Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Studies at Connecticut College, where she has been a faculty member since 1998. Based in the Blaustein Humanities Center, she has significantly contributed to college-wide initiatives including the Education Planning Committee and Connections Coordinating Committee.
Her educational background includes:
- B.A. in East Asian Studies, Columbia University (summa cum laude)
- M.A. in Chinese Literature, Columbia University
- Ph.D. in Chinese Literature, Columbia University
Professor Dooling's research centers on modern and contemporary Chinese literature with specialized focus on women's writing and feminist literary culture. She investigates intersections between political activism and cultural expression across early twentieth-century China and contemporary post-socialist society, examining radical women writers, the women's movement, and gender dynamics in literary markets.
Her recent scholarly output demonstrates consistent thematic focus on gender representation, with 2017 research analyzing Shanghai's 1929 Woman Writer Magazine launch and 2014 translations of seminal Chinese plays highlighting commercialism and feminist perspectives in modern drama.
Her distinguished contributions have been recognized through:
- Helen Brooks Regan Faculty Leadership award (2015)
- Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities
- President's Fellowship from Columbia University
- Fulbright grant
- American Council of Learned Societies grant
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation grant
- National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Professor Dooling actively engages scholarly communities through invited presentations at prestigious institutions including the Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Freer Gallery, Pembroke Center, East-West Center, and Harvard's Fairbank Center, while mentoring students through documentary film collaborations like 'Autumn Gem' on revolutionary martyr Qiu Jin.
She has provided institutional leadership as chair of the International Commons Steering Committee (2011-2016) and co-director of the Mellon Foundation-funded Initiative in Global Education (2014-2018), advancing global study frameworks through the Otto and Fran Walter Commons for Global Study and Engagement.
