معرفی
Jingsi Shen serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University Shanghai, specializing in interdisciplinary literary studies spanning 18th and 19th Century literature, classical reception, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and Spinozism, with particular focus on the body and catastrophic temporality in Romantic-era discourse.
Her academic credentials include:
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Washington
- M.A. in English Language and Literature, Peking University
Dr. Shen's research investigates literary representations of catastrophe through authors like Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, Goethe, and Kleist, analyzing the paradoxical coexistence of destruction and regeneration within historical frameworks of catastrophic thought. Her methodology bridges literary analysis with philosophical explorations of the 'in-human'.
She has taught Writing in Comparative Literature (C LIT 240) during Autumn and Spring semesters of 2022. Personal interests include film, yoga, coffee, and hiking, reflecting her engagement with both scholarly and experiential dimensions of human expression.
