Position
Academic Visitor (from 25th August 2025 to 25th November 2025)
Correspondence Address
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Email
xiaosu.sun@ames.ox.ac.uk
xsun@nnu.edu.cn
Research Interests
Pre-modern vernacular literature, popular religious storytelling, drama, ritual soundscapes
Biography
Xiaosu Sun 孙晓苏 is a Visiting Scholar of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University. She is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Center for Chinese Culture and International Communication at Nanjing Normal University, China. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and has served as a Visiting Scholar of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanjing University. She specializes in pre-modern Chinese vernacular literature, with a particular emphasis on popular religious storytelling, ritual opera, and ritual soundscapes. She held a Loeb Fellowship, received a Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund, and has been awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences, among other awards.
Educational Background
Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
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