Alison Groppe
Assistant Professor
Phone: (541) 346-7015
Email: amgroppe@uoregon.edu
Professor Groppe teaches courses in modern Chinese literature, film,
and popular culture. Her research interests include representations
of identity in contemporary Southeast Asian Chinese fiction, the
formation and representation of regional Chinese identities, the
transnational production and circulation of Chinese popular culture
and cinema, and theoretical formulations of "cultural China." Her
dissertation, entitled “Not made in China: inventing local identities
in contemporary Malaysian Chinese fiction," examines the contemporary
fiction of Malaysian Chinese writers Huang Jinshu, Li Yongping, Li
Tianbao and Li Zishu from the perspective of how their fictional
works participate in and challenge identity constructions and
representations such as "Chinese," "Malaysian," and the local. While
her current book project involves revising her dissertation into a
monograph, she has also been pursuing research into the Chinese
popular culture produced in Republican-era Shanghai and 1950s-60s
Hong Kong, its global circulation among diasporic Chinese
populations, and nostalgic representations of that popular culture in
contemporary Chinese film and fiction.
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