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Dorothee Hou

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Assistant Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies  

Contact 

Office location: Comenius 402
Office phone: 610-625-7782
Email: houd@moravian.edu 

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Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis
M.A., Asian Studies, Florida State University
B.A., Communications and Media Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University

Research and Teaching Interests   

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Dorothee Hou's primary areas of interest include Asian cinema, modern Chinese literature, film, and media, with a special focus on cultural production and social migration in the contexts of globalization and deindustrialization. Currently, she is working on her book manuscript titled Red Rust: China¡¯s Postsocialist Rust Belt in Literature, Film, and Media Culture, which explores literature and film from China's northeastern Rust Belt.
Her teaching interests include world cinema, Chinese and Asian literature, film, and visual culture, Chinese (Mandarin) language pedagogy, and creative writing. 

Recent Publications

  • Author, "Framing China's Uneven Urban Landscape: An Interview with Chen Ronghui," Trans Asia Photography, November 2023.
  • Author, "From Rust Belt to Belleville: Two Recent Films on Illegal Chinese Sex Workers in Paris," Remapping the Homeland: Affective Geographies and Cultures of the Chinese Diaspora, edited by Robert Tally and Melody Li, Palgrave Macmillan, September 2022, pp. 31-51. 
  • Author, "Reforging the Rust Belt: China's Northeast on the Silver Screen," Journal of Chinese Film Studies, May 2022, pp. 71-93. 
  • Translator, Zhai Yueqin, "The Tragic Spirit of the East: The 'Drama of Sounds' in Yang Mu's Poems", Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Dec. 2021, pp. 127-140.
  • Co-Author, "The Time-Image and the Unknown in Wong Kar-wai's Film Art." The Fascination with Unknown Time, eds. Klaus Oschema, Sibylle Baumbach, and Lena Henningsen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 233-249.

Courses Developed

  • Monsters in Modern Asian Cultures (FORL/ENGL 129)
  • Pop Culture of East Asia (FORL/COMM 123)
  • Gotham: The City in World Cinema (FORL/COMM 150)
  • Introduction to Chinese Cinemas (FORL/COMM 151)
  • Introduction to Film Studies

Courses Taught

  • Great Writers of China: Classical Chinese Literature in English Translation
  • Chinese-Language Cinema (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora)
  • Modernity and Its Discontents: World Literature from the 18th-20th Century
  • Introduction to Modern Chinese Literature and Culture in English Translation
  • Introduction to Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture in English Translation
  • Mandarin Chinese 001, 002, 003