Maram Epstein
Academic Director, Chinese Flagship; Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Phone: (541) 346-4017
Email: maram@uoregon.edu
Maram Epstein’s past research focused on reading Ming-Qing novels within their specific cultural and aesthetic contexts with an emphasis on gender and cultural studies. From 2000-2003 and again in 2005, Professor Epstein conducted research at the Number One Historical Archives in Beijing collecting legal records of domestic violence. Her current research uses these records along with fiction and autobiographical writings to uncover how the self is represented in different discourses and to tease out the implications of various narrative clichés that continue to shape the cultural imaginary of contemporary China. Her recent publications include the forthcoming “Modernizing a Masculinist Fantasy: A Republican Edition of Yesou Puyan” in Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures; “Sons and Mothers: The Social Construction of Filial Piety in Late-Imperial China” in Emotions in Chinese Civilization: Questions and Themes, (forthcoming); “Honglou meng de yinyang jieguo yu xingbie yiyi” in Ming Qing wen xue yu xingbie yanjiu, (2002); Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late-Imperial Chinese Fiction, (2001). She received the China Cultural Research Fellowship in 2000. In 2006, she received the Humanities Center Research Fellowship.
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