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About Victoria Lupascu
Victoria Oana Lupașcu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montréal. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies.Victoria Oana Lupașcu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montréal. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies.
NBN Episodes hosted by Victoria:
August 8, 2025
Good Quality
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproducti…
April 28, 2025
Circular Ecologies
After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World …
March 13, 2025
Networks of Touch
In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among China's educated elites began to use touch t…
March 5, 2025
Unlawful Violence
Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017. The abundance of laws and constitutional …
February 28, 2025
Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature
Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2024) presents an innovative and imaginative read…
February 19, 2025
X-Ray
X-rays are powerful. Moving through objects undetected, revealing the body as a tryptic of skin, tissue, and bone. X-rays gave rise to a transparent w…
July 29, 2024
Asian American Fiction After 1965
After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan…
July 10, 2024
Counter-Cartographies
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool UP, 2024) draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in co…
April 10, 2024
Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry
Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) places contemporary poetics in dialogue with po…
March 6, 2024
Paris and the Art of Transposition
A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital stepping stone for their careers during the cultura…
February 18, 2024
The Dictator Novel
Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship. As this genre…
February 4, 2024
Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City
Sabina Andron's book Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City (Routledge, 2024) focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship a…
January 28, 2024
Within Reason
A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots. The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public heal…
November 16, 2023
The Party Family
Kimberley Ens Manning's book The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China (Cornell UP, 2023) explores …
November 10, 2023
Governing Death, Making Persons
Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Cornell UP, 2023) tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management…
September 22, 2023
Reading the Walls of Bogota
A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and acce…
August 2, 2023
Good Formulas
Ruth Yun-Ju Chen is a historian of mid-imperial China (600–1400). Her research interests lie in the histories of medicine, publishing, and material cu…
July 19, 2023
Seeking Western Men
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rif…
July 18, 2023
Moulding the Socialist Subject
Xiaoning Lu received her BA and MA in Chinese Literature and Language from Nanjing University and Fudan University respectively. She then earned her P…
June 22, 2023
The Smile Gap
As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, an…
October 18, 2022
Metaphor in Illness Writing
Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused (Edinburgh UP, 2022) argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need n…
September 8, 2022
Cold War Reckonings
How did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? C…
June 9, 2022
Minor China
In Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic (Duke UP, 2021), Hentyle Yapp analyzes contemporary Chinese art as it circulates on the global…
May 23, 2022
Telling Details
What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the …