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Biography

Professor Wang received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. Her research interests include sea and literature in premodern China, material culture and women’s writings , the global middle ages and Chinese literature, ethnicity and race, and premodern comparative literature. Her monographs include Writing Pirates: Oceans and Fiction in Late Ming China (University of Michigan Press, 2021) and Early Globalism and Chinese Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2026). Her peer-reviewed journal articles appeared in positions: asia critique, CLEAR, Nan Nu, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, Ming Studies, and Journal of the Siam Society, among others.