Xian Wang

Xian Wang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. Her research investigates gender politics and cultural memory in modern Chinese literature and film.

Key research areas:

• Representations of revolutionary martyrdom
• Gender ideology in socialist literature
• Trauma narratives in cultural production
• Intersections of memory and power

Her publications critically examine how female revolutionary figures are memorialized and reinterpreted across historical periods.