Key Passages Talk: The Making of Ghost Village: Across the borders of Life and Death, Scholarship and Opera

Talk description forthcoming.

Judith T. Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. A scholar of early modern Chinese literature, her innovative work combines literary history with other disciplines, including visual and material culture, theater, music, medicine, gender studies, and film. Her many publications include The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature (2007), Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale (1993), and co-edited works such as Writing and Materiality in China (2000), Thinking in Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (2007), Chinese Opera Film (2010), and The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality (2019).

Cosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment