Tianlin Meng Walsh

Tianlin Meng Walsh is Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester. Her research examines the zuihitsu genre in 20th-century Japanese literature, analyzing its connections to subjectivity, coloniality, travel narratives, and print capitalism.

Through her doctoral work, she investigates this protean literary form as both a cultural artifact and medium for expressing sociopolitical transformations during Japan's early modern period. Her scholarship bridges literary analysis with historical context to reveal how zuihitsu reflected and shaped Japanese intellectual discourse.