Grace S. Fong

Grace S. Fong is Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University. She received her PhD in classical Chinese poetry from the University of British Columbia. As Guggenheim Fellow in 2011-2012, she was a visiting professor at both the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests encompass classical Chinese poetry and poetics, women writers of Ming and Qing China, and autobiographical practices in the Chinese literary tradition. She is editor of the "Women and Gender in China Studies" series published by Brill. Her book, Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China, was a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title, 2008.” Engaged in exploring the potential of developments in digital humanities for new modes of critical inquiry in the domain of literary studies, she has been directing the Ming Qing Women’s Writings digital archive and database project since its inception in 2003. Using the digitized local gazetteers and the supporting digital tools at the Max Planck Institute, she will map the temporal and spatial dimensions in her new project on “The Filiality of Daughters in China: A Genealogical Study.”