Biography
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.
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.
Research
Selected Research
- Zhifan Sheng. "Tianyi and International Feminism in the Age of Early Globalization." Transnational Asia 6, no. 1 (September 2024). https://doi.org/10.25615/ta.v6i1.99.
- Zhifan Sheng. "From Anthropomorphism to Becoming-Animal: Animal Agency in Zhang Guixing’s Nanyang Imagination." Tamkang Review 51.2 (June 2021), 23-44.
- Zhifan Sheng. "数字档案与民国女性期刊研究的方法论反思——以《妇女杂志》数据库为例 Digital Archive and Methodological Reflections on Studies of Women’s Periodicals in Republican China: A Case Study of Databases of Ladies’ Journal." 数字人文 Journal of Digital Humanities 2 (2020): 171-179.