Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Graduate
Virtual: Friday 3pm-5pm over zoom; Robarts Library, Room 14-087
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Modern Chinese literature and culture
- Writing systems and literacy
- Intersections between technology and writing
- History of linguistic thought
- Media theory
Biography
Yurou Zhong is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. Her first book, Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958, was published with Columbia University Press in November 2019. A discussion of the book can be found in an episode of the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast.
Education
PhD, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University
MA, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University
BA, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Tsinghua University
Awards
- 2021 Joseph Levenson Prize – (China, Post-1900) (Honourable Mention) Association for Asian Studies
Publications
- Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958 (Columbia University Press : 2019)
Administrative Service
Associate Chair, Graduate