Welcome, Dr. Xin Wei, to World Languages & Literatures and the BU Center for the Humanities!
Dr. Xin Wei is joining us this year as the Korean Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in WLL. She completed her PhD in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, with a focus on Korea. After taking her undergraduate degree in China, she has had extensive experience studying and researching in Korea and Japan. Her work focuses on Korean hanmun literature delineated within a broader East Asian literary context. Her research interests include literary criticism, world literature, East Asian comparative literature, and the literary history of Korea. Her first book, co-authored with James B. Lewis, Korea’s Premier Collection of Classical Literature: Excerpts from Sŏ Kŏjŏng’s (1420-1488) Tongmunsŏn (forthcoming from Hawai’i UP, 2018) is part of the Korean Classics Library series, https://uhpress.wordpress.com/books-in-series/korea-classics-library/. She is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her PhD thesis, “The Literary Chinese Cosmopolis.” This research project, set against the backdrop of literary Chinese as the cosmopolitan written language across East Asia, examines two superlative literary Chinese writers of the ninth century, Ch’oe Ch’iwon from Silla Korea and Sugawara no Michizane from Heian Japan.
Dr. Xin Wei’s full profile can be viewed here