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:

Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

March 6, 2024

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Angie Chau
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

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…

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, "The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South" (Northwestern UP, 2019)

February 18, 2024

The Dictator Novel

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship. As this genre…

Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)

February 4, 2024

Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City

Sabina Andron
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

Sabina Andron's book Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City (Routledge, 2024) focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship a…

Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

January 28, 2024

Within Reason

Sandro Galea
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

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…

Kimberley Ens Manning, "The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China" (Cornell UP, 2023)

November 16, 2023

The Party Family

Kimberley Ens Manning
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
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Kimberley Ens Manning's book The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China (Cornell UP, 2023) explores …

Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)

November 10, 2023

Governing Death, Making Persons

Huwy-min Lucia Liu
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

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…

Alba Griffin, "Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

September 22, 2023

Reading the Walls of Bogota

Alba Griffin
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
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A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and acce…

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)

August 2, 2023

Good Formulas

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
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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…

Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)

July 19, 2023

Seeking Western Men

Monica Liu
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
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Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rif…

Xiaoning Lu, "Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)" (Brill, 2020)

July 18, 2023

Moulding the Socialist Subject

Xiaoning Lu
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
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Xiaoning Lu received her BA and MA in Chinese Literature and Language from Nanjing University and Fudan University respectively. She then earned her P…

Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

June 22, 2023

The Smile Gap

Catherine Carstairs
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
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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…

Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

October 18, 2022

Metaphor in Illness Writing

Anita Wohlmann
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused (Edinburgh UP, 2022) argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need n…

Jini Kim Watson, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021)

September 8, 2022

Cold War Reckonings

Jini Kim Watson
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

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…

Hentyle Yapp, "Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic" (Duke UP, 2021)

June 9, 2022

Minor China

Hentyle Yapp
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

In Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic (Duke UP, 2021), Hentyle Yapp analyzes contemporary Chinese art as it circulates on the global…

Jiwei Xiao, "Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature" (Routledge, 2022)

May 23, 2022

Telling Details

Jiwei Xiao
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the …

Chinmay Murali and Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine" (Routledge, 2021)

October 27, 2021

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Chinmay Murali and Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine (Routledge, 2021) examines women’s graphic memoirs on infertility, foregrounding the complex interrelationship…

Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)

October 26, 2021

Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Hongjian Wang
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several gener…

Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)

October 1, 2021

Healing with Poisons

Yan Liu
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically dep…

Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)

July 28, 2021

Cinema Off Screen

Chenshu Zhou
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural …

Germán Campos Muñoz, "The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

July 2, 2021

The Classics in South America

Germán Campos Muñoz
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

Germán Campos Muñoz, The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies (Bloomsbury, 2021) examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman trad…

Monica Popescu, "At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2020)

July 2, 2021

At Penpoint

Monica Popescu
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African literatu…

Jack W. Chen, "Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu" (Harvard UP, 2021)

April 6, 2021

Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance

Jack W. Chen
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu (Harvard UP, 2021) is a study of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal c…

Clara Iwasaki, "Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions Across the Transpacific" (Cambria Press, 2020)

March 19, 2021

Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon

Clara Iwasaki
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

The texts that are examined in this study move in and out of different languages or are multilingual in their origins. Texts and authors do not move r…

Yujie Zhu, "Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China" (Amsterdam UP, 2018)

January 29, 2021

Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China

Yujie Zhu
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantation and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding C…