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Lisa Raphals is a Distinguished Professor of Chinese/Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Her research focuses on early Chinese and Classical Greek cultures, with expertise in comparative philosophy, religion, history of science, gender studies, poetics, and science fiction/media studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Thought from the University of Chicago (1989) and currently serves as the Book Review Editor (East Asia) for Philosophy East & West.
Her work includes three major books: Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece (1992), Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China (1998), and the poetry collection What Country (1993). She teaches courses such as “Rhetoric and Argumentation in China and Greece,” “Engendering China: Women in Chinese History,” and “Medical Traditions in China and Greece.”
Raphals’ research bridges cultural and intellectual history, emphasizing cross-cultural comparisons in philosophy, science, and gender. Her articles explore themes like skepticism in classical texts, medical historiography, and the boundaries of humanity in science fiction.
