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Shiamin Kwa is a Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and holds the Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College. She specializes in translation, adaptation, and global circulation of narratives, with expertise in theater, graphic novels, and comparative literature. Kwa earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Chinese Literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English Literature from Dartmouth College.
Her research explores intersections between form and content across media, including studies on Chinese drama, contemporary graphic narratives, and food culture. Major publications include Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend (2010), Strange Eventful Histories (2013), and Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic (2023). She has been supported by grants such as the American Philosophical Society sabbatical award (2019-2020).
Kwa received Bryn Mawr’s Rosalyn R. Schwartz Teaching Award (2019) and contributes to pedagogical initiatives like the Chinese Poster Project. Her courses explore themes such as food culture in East Asian literature and environmental art. Current research interests include digital-age textuality, ekphrasis in comics, and interdisciplinary narrative theory.
