Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies.
Qinna Shen will present a lecture based on her forthcoming book, “Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics through a Feminist Lens.”
Qinna Shen is Associate Professor of German at Bryn Mawr College. Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first century German culture, with an emphasis on visual studies and Asian German Studies. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her book, entitled The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films, was published in 2015 by Wayne State University Press. It is the first comprehensive, critical, and book-length treatment of the live-action fairy-tale films from the former East Germany. Her co-edited volume Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia appeared in the series Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association in 2014 with Berghahn Press. Her book project Film and Cold War Diplomacy: China and the Two Germanys, 1949–1989 is under contract with Routledge. She is currently writing a monograph Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics through a Feminist Lens. Her cross-disciplinary article “A Refugee Scholar from Nazi Germany: Emmy Noether and Bryn Mawr College” reached the circles of mathematicians and physicists and helped revive the memory of the greatest woman mathematician of the twentieth century.
Sourced from the Bryn Mawr College website: https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/people/qinna-shen
More information will be forthcoming.