Tie Xiao

Tie Xiao serves as Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where his research investigates modern Chinese literature within transnational intellectual and political frameworks, focusing on intersections between human sciences, literature, and historical contexts across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

His academic foundation includes:

• PhD in Chinese Studies from University of Chicago (2011)
• MA from University of Wisconsin–Madison (2005)
• BA from Peking University (2002)

Xiao's scholarship critically examines enduring tensions in modern thought—reason versus intuition, solitude versus solidarity, and energy versus fatigue—tracing their manifestations through literary genres, disciplinary boundaries, and geographic borders. His interdisciplinary humanistic approach reveals how these conceptual conflicts persist within Chinese intellectual history, particularly through analyses of revolutionary movements and mass psychology.

His publication trajectory from 2012-2019 demonstrates sustained engagement with political crowds and intellectual history in modern China, highlighted by the monograph Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China (2017) and co-edited special issue on contemporary political crowds (2013). Articles consistently analyze key thinkers like Zhu Qianzhi while exploring self-writing, revolutionary imagination, and cross-cultural literary exchanges, with recurring emphasis on how figurative language mediates political concepts across cultural contexts.

His scholarly contributions have earned significant recognition:

• Fellowship, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University, China (2019 Fall)
• New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Experimentation Fellowship, Indiana University (2018)
• Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University (2017)
• Fellowship, Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, France (2015)
• Junior Scholar Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (2014-2015)
• CAHI Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University (2014)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies (2011-2012)

As Director of Undergraduate Studies, Xiao oversees curriculum development and student advising for East Asian Languages and Cultures majors, teaching courses ranging from Popular Culture in East Asia to Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature. His research has been supported by competitive grants from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Nantes Institute, and multiple Indiana University fellowships, reflecting sustained institutional investment in his transnational humanities scholarship.