Kuan Liu

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Master of Arts: Literary Theory and Criticism, Renmin University of China
• Bachelor of Arts: Chinese Language and Literature, Nankai University

Specialties

• Vernacular fiction
• Text-Image relations
• Book history & print culture
• Affect theory & history of emotions

Activities

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Activities

Research

• Presented a paper, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, 2025
• Presented a paper, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 2025
• Presented a paper, Third Middle Period China Humanities Conference (220-1600), 2023
• Presented a paper, the 26th Harvard East Asia Society Conference, 2023

Awards

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Awards

• The Shohara and Mather Research Awards ($25,000), 2025-2026 academic year
• Center for Premodern Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2025
• AAS Annual Conference Travel Grant, March 2025
• Research Travel Grant, The Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Fall 2024
• Union Pacific Research Grant, Center for Premodern Studies, Summer 2023&2024
• Outstanding Graduate Award, Renmin University of China, 2022
• National Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Education, PRC, 2022
• Attended Study Abroad Program at University of Oxford, United Kingdom; funded by a full merit-based scholarship from Nankai University, Summer 2017

Courses

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Courses

• AMES 3265W (001) The Fantastic in East Asia: Ghosts, Foxes, and the Alien (TA)
• AMES 1201 (001) Arrow, Fist, and Sword: Conceptions of the Hero in Asian Cultures (TA)
• AMES 3001 Concepts in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (TA)