Lingjia Xu is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, media, and culture. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2025. She is working on her first book project, tentatively entitled “Reinventing Handicraft: Media and the Imagination of Labor in Modern China.” This project explores how Chinese cultural creators draw on media and literature to reinvent handicraft and rethink labor culture in the industrial and digital age. Xu’s writings have been published or are forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Chinese Literature and Thought Today, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Literature (Wenxue), and other venues.
At Mount Holyoke, Xu teaches courses spanning Chinese and East Asian media, film, literature, and culture, as well as an introductory course in media studies. In her teaching, she collaborates with the Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab, Talcott Greenhouse, Media Teaching Area, and College Art Museum to design hands-on activities that allow students to engage with scholarly texts both experientially and critically.
Education
- M.A.,Ph.D., Stanford University
- B.A., Fudan University