معرفی
Mingwei Song is the Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Chinese at Wellesley College, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University and postdoctoral fellowships from Harvard and Princeton. His research spans modern Chinese literature, science fiction, posthuman theories, and Neo-Baroque aesthetics, focusing on how literary forms engage with technology, ethics, and cultural modernity.
Education:
- B.A., Shandong University
- M.A., Fudan University
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Themes include the posthuman in Sinophone fiction, contemporary science fiction as world literature, and the Bildungsroman in late Qing and Republican China. He pioneered studies on the "new wave" of Chinese science fiction since 2008, emphasizing authors like Liu Cixin and Han Song, and co-edited The Reincarnated Giant (2018) and Fear of Seeing (2023).
Academic Impact is marked by grants from the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and Dilworth Fellowship. His edited volumes and translations have expanded global access to Chinese science fiction, while his poetic works (e.g., White Horse and Black Camel, 2022) reflect his dual identity as scholar-poet. Song also mentors doctoral students at Harvard and Uppsala, bridging academic and creative practices.
