From The Strange Tales of Liaozhai to Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing), Jiangnan (South of the Yangtze River)

Writing Pedagogy, Comparative Literature, Ming-Qing Literature

2012–2019: Ph.D. in Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

2022–Present: Lecturer, Teaching Center for Writing and Communication (TCWC), Tsinghua University

Academic Research

Bing Yan, “Milton in China ‘Yet Once More,’” in Angelica Duran, Islam Issa, and Jonathan R. Olson (eds.), Milton in Translation，Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 445-458.

Bing Yan,“Women Martyrs of the Zha Family and Their Posthumous Fame,” 58th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Memphis, 2019.

Bing Yan, “Jin Zhiyuan and the Making of an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Woman Poet,” 67th Annual Meeting of Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2018.

Bing Yan, “Gender, Suffering and Power in Liu Xiang baojuan,” 64th Annual Meeting of Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, St. Louis, 2015.

Bing Yan, “Justice and Divine Intervention in The Journey to the West and The Pilgrim's Progress,” The 6th Sino-American Comparative Literature Symposium: Comparative Literature, Religion, and Society, West Lafayette, 2013.

Research Projects

Principal Investigator: Seed Project (Phase II), TCWC, Tsinghua University (2021) – “Oral and Written Feedback in the Revision Process of Writing Course Assignments.”