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Jing Tsu is the Jonathan D. Spence Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She holds affiliations with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (as Senior Research Fellow), the Humanities Program, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M). Her interdisciplinary research focuses on modern Chinese literary and cultural studies, with specialties in diaspora, science history, and comparative frameworks.
Her key works include Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (2010) and Failure, Nationalism, and Literature (2005), which explore themes of cultural identity, transnational networks, and historical transformations. Tsu has held prestigious fellowships from institutions including Harvard Society of Fellows, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Her research bridges literary analysis with technological history, examining how language, script, and scientific knowledge shape cultural power dynamics.
Her recent publications analyze global literary frameworks (e.g., 2023’s World Literature and National Literature(s)) and the intersections of science translation with national identity (e.g., 2014’s Science in Translation: Yan Fu’s Role). Tsu’s work consistently interrogates the boundaries between global and local cultural systems, emphasizing the agency of marginalized voices in shaping intellectual histories.
- Awards: Harvard Society of Fellows Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Mellon Foundation Fellowship, and others.
- Grants/Advising: Extensive institutional support through fellowships; her advisory roles focus on guiding interdisciplinary scholarship in Sinophone studies and transnational literatures.
- Labs/Teams: Collaborates through the MacMillan Center’s international studies initiatives and interdisciplinary programs like ER&M and WGSS.
