Tamara T. Chin
Tamara Chin is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her research and teaching interests include Han dynasty literature and culture; ancient cross-cultural exchange, particularly in relation to the Silk Road; comparative studies of early Greek and Chinese texts; modern uses of ancient texts; and gender and sexuality studies. She is currently completing a book on early Han dynasty literary conceptions of cross-cultural contact, entitled Illicit Exchange: An Imaginary History of the Chinese Silk Road, circa 200-100 BCE.
She is associated faculty in the departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and of Classics, and is a member of the Committee on Central Eurasian Studies (CCES).
Contact:
Email: tchin@uchicago.edu
Office: Classics 120
Courses:
- Mimesis
- Cosmopolitanisms
- Silk Road Fictions
- Historicizing Desire
Recent Publications:
- "Orienting Mimesis: Marriage and the Book of Songs," in: Representations, Spring 2006, 94: 53-79
- "Antiquarian as ethnographer: Han ethnicity in early China studies" (forthcoming in an edited volume, Critical Han Studies)
- "Defamiliarizing the foreigner: Sima Qian’s ethnography and Han-Xiongnu marriage diplomacy" (under review)
- "The Invention of the Silk Road, 1877" (in progress)