Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Our People
Jie Guo
| Title: | Associate Professor of Comparative Literature |
| Department: | Languages, Literatures and Cultures College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | guoji@mailbox.sc.edu |
| Office: | J. Welsh Humanities Office Bldg. 707 |
Jie Guo received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Johns Hopkins University,
and is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of
South Carolina. Her research interests include comparative literature, Chinese literature,
literary theory, the history of sexuality, and visual culture. She is also a translator,
and her English-to-Chinese translations include Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. She has taught a variety of course on both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Selected Courses
CPLT 150 Values and Ethics in Literature
CPLT 270 World Literature
CPLT 300 What Is Comparative Literature
CPLT 303 Great Books of the Eastern World
SCHC 453 Asian American Food Culture
CPLT 702 Modern Literary Theory
CPLT 703 Contemporary Literary Theory
CPLT 880 Bodies in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Selected Publications
“Games in Late Ming and Early Qing Erotic Literature.” In Li Guo, Douglas Eyman, and
Hongmei Sun, eds., Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures. University of Washington Press, 2024.100-116.
“The Male Dan at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Wu Jiwen’s Fin-de-siècle Boylove Reader,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 18.1 (March 2021): 70-88.
“Reportage, Ethnicity, and Feminine Subjectivities: Ai Wu’s Journey to the South and Its ‘Sequels’,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. 31.2 (Fall 2019): 1-40.
“Erotica in Erotica: Adaptation and Somatic Translation in Late Imperial Chinese Erotic
Culture.” Erotic Literature in Translation and Adaptation. Johannes Kamiski, ed. Legenda, 2018. 110-124.
“The Image of the Traveling Mother in Eileen Chang’s The Fall of the Pagoda and The Book of Change.” New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics: The Centennial of the End of the Qing
Dynasty. Ed. Ya-Chen Chen. London: Routledge, 2014. 135-154.
“Mulan Comes Home from the War: The Meaning of Homecoming in Late Imperial China.”
Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home. Eds. Hunter Gardner and Sheila Murnaghan. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University
Press, 2014: 19-43.
“‘Going to the Land of Barbarians’: Nation, Ethnicity, and the Female Body in Late
Qing and Republican Travel Writing on the Yunnan-Burma Borderlands.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. 8.1 (2014): 5-30.
“From Patriarchal Polygamy to Conjugal Monogamy: Imagining Male Same-Sex Relationships
in Modern China.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 25.1 (Spring 2013): 165-205.
“Where Past Meets Present: The Emergence of Gay Identity in Pai Hsien-yung’s Niezi.” MLN 126.5 (December 2011): 1049-1082.
“Robert Hans van Gulik Reading Late Ming Erotica.” Hanxue yanjiu (Chinese Studies) 28.2 (June 2010): 225-265.