MARGARET WAN

Margaret B. Wan is Professor of Chinese Literature and Cultural History. She served as Editor of CHINOPERL, an international journal devoted to Chinese oral and performing literature. She is the author of Regional Literature and the Transmission of Culture: Chinese Drum Ballads, 1800-1937 (Harvard, 2020) and "Green Peony" and the Rise of the Chinese Martial Arts Novel (SUNY, 2009). She is also co-editor of Yangzhou -A Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Cultural History (Hawaii, 2015) and The Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature (NIAS, 2010). Her current book project explores how the increasing availability of books in the Qing (1644-1911) reshaped the cultural landscape, focusing on the popular anthology Marvels Old and New (Jin gu qiguan, 1650s).

Professor Wan has been awarded fellowships including Member at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), National Humanities Center Summer Residency, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. She is the recipient of the Ramona Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Utah and the Bok Center Distinction in Teaching Award at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.