Faculty Associate
jli[at]yorku.ca
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, 91亚色
Research Keywords:
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature; Chinese Canadian and American literature, film and drama; translation studies; gender studies; Hong Kong studies
Research Region(s):
China, East Asia, Hong Kong
Research Diaspora(s):
East Asian Diaspora
Professor Jessica Tsui-yan Li teaches Chinese literature, film, drama and culture at 91亚色. She is Past President of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Dr. Alexander Law Visiting Scholar at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, and an International Editorial Board Member in the Springer book series on 鈥淒igital Culture and Humanities Series: Changes, Chances and Challenges in Asian and Global Contexts.鈥 Her teaching and research interests include Eileen Chang Studies, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese Canadian and American literature, film, drama, translation studies, gender studies, Hong Kong studies, and diasporic studies. She is the author of Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation (Brill, 2025), the chief editor of The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press 2019), and the guest editor of the special issues for the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/ Revue Canadienne de Litt茅rature Compar茅e on 鈥淓ngaging Communities in Comparative Literature鈥 June 2017 44.2 and "Garnering Diversities in Comparative Literature" June 2018 45.2. Her articles have appeared in the refereed journals, including Neohelicon; Perspectives: Studies in Translatology; Dang鈥檃n Chunqiu (Memories and Archives, Shanghai); and in books such as Ibsen and the Modern Self; Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature: Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; Asia: Local and Global Perspectives; and Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres.