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Dr. Tarryn Li-Min Chun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on the intersections of performance, technology, and media in modern and contemporary Sinophone theatre. She is the author of Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and co-editor with Xiaomei Chen and Siyuan Liu of Rethinking Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, TDR, and Asian Theatre Journal, and several edited volumes. Chun currently serves as Online Editor for Theatre Journal and received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her current project on "Spectacle and Excess in Global Chinese Performance."

This talk is hosted by Dr. Laura MacDonald, Assistant Professor, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at MSU.

This event is made possible with support from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant managed by the MSU Asian Studies Center.