About Linshan Jiang

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. My research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. I am writing my dissertation about female writers’ wartime experience and memories of the Second Sino-Japanese War. I have been making a podcast called "The Gleaners" with my friends since 2014 in school. It is mainly about literary works around the world, but also cultural phenomena in China. We usually use Chinese to make the podcast, but I personally have also interviewed some professors and friends in English. To check it out: https://anchor.fm/gleaners