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Andrea Bachner
Department of Comparative Literature
Email: bachner@stanford.edu
Andrea Bachner received an MA (major: Comparative Literature, minors: English and French Literatures) from Munich University, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. She also studied at Oxford University, UC Irvine, and Peking University, as well as doing research in Chile and Spain. Her dissertation Paradoxical Corpographies: Towards an Ethics of Inscription proposes a critique of inscription through readings of contemporary theoretical, literary and visual texts from different cultural and linguistic contexts. It scrutinizes scenes that stage the encounter between textuality and corporeality with a view to elucidating how inscription is deployed to negotiate crucial differences: between materiality and signification, between agency and determinism, between cultural sameness and alterity. She has published articles on critical theory, interculturality, literature and cinema in journals such as Comparative Literature Studies and Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. In keeping with her sustained interest in reflections on alterity and mediality she is currently working on a new project: Writing and Alterity: The Reinvention of the Sinograph in Contemporary Chinese Culture. It investigates how contemporary sinophone writers and artists reshape, decenter, and reflect upon the Chinese writing system and its cultural archive from positions of diaspora, interculturality, as well as regional, ethnic, and cultural difference, and how they engage with, translate, and contest Western theories of writing and mediality.
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