Xuesong Shao

A picture of Xuesong Shao looking at the viewer

PhD completed June 2024
Associate in Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages & Cultures

818 Sproul Hall
Education and Degree(s)
  • BA in English and International Economics (double major), Wuhan University
  • MA in English, Wuhan University
  • MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Honors and Awards
  • 2022-23 University of California, Davis, Provost’s Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • 2023 University of California, Davis, Graduate Studies Travel Award
  • 2022 Dean’s Graduate Summer Fellowship
  • 2022 East Asian Studies Graduate Student Research Grant
  • 2020 American Comparative Literature Association, Travel Award
Courses
  • CHN 109 “Chinese Popular Culture”, Associate Instructor
  • CHN 101/CTS147A “Chinese Film”, Associate Instructor
  • CHN 10 “Modern Chinese Literature in Translation”, Associate Instructor
  • COM 4 “Major Books of the Contemporary World”, Associate Instructor
  • COM 6 “Myths and Legends”, Teaching Assistant
  • COM 007: Literature of Fantasy and the Supernatural, Teaching Assistant
  • CHN 103 “Modern Chinese Drama”, Reader
  • COM 110 “Hong Kong Cinema”, Reader
  • (UMass Amherst) CHN 450 “Elementary Classical Chinese”, Teaching Assistant
  • (UMass Amherst) CHN 247 “Contemporary Chinese Literature”, Teaching Assistant
  • (UMass Amherst) CHN 136 “Introduction to Chinese Cinema”, Teaching Assistant
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Film and Media Studies; Urban and Rural Studies, Affect Studies
Publications
  • Reconfiguring the Chronotope: Temporal and Spatial Representations of Beijing in Mr. Six,” co-authored with Sheldon Lu, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19:1 (March 2022): 67-85.
  • “Restoring and Reimagining Socialist-Built Cities: Wang Xiaoshuai’s ‘Third Front Trilogy’,” Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 197 (Winter 2021): 13–33.
  • “Transnational Chinese Cinemas,” co-authored with Sheldon Lu, Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, November 2020.