Zhifan Sheng

PhD Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese
Book Sale Coordinator, Asian L&L Graduate Student Association (GSA)

Contact Information

GWN M226
Office Hours
Fridays 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Biography

M.Phil., Gender Studies (Home Department: Chinese Language and Literature), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020

Zhifan Sheng is a doctoral student in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at UW Seattle. He is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Cinema and Media Studies. He is interested in how the interaction between different media forms is laden with social and cultural meanings of communication and transmission. His dissertation project centers on media history of Chinese letters and epistolary writings in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on cases ranging from the lithographic reproduction of calligraphic letters in the late Qing to the remediation of queer letters in contemporary new media arts, the project explores the shifting cultural and technological underpinnings for letters as a medium in modern China. His second project is about queer death in Sinophone media cultures.

GSA Officer Info

Book Sale Coordinator

Duties: This officer organizes the annual graduate book sale, coordinates students to be present at the book sale, creates flyers to advertise the book sale at UW and in the community. They also contact relevant local libraries, bookstores, and individuals to collect donations for the book sale. 

Contact me if: You are interested in volunteering for the annual book sale or have more books to contribute to our sale.

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