Wai-Yee Li 李惠儀 Election Year 2014 2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Tel: (617) 495-1608 / Fax: (617) 496-6040
Current Positions
Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Education
B.A., Department of English Studies and Comparative Literature and Department of History, University of Hong Kong (1982)
Ph.D., Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University (dissertation defense, October 1987)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Department of East Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1987-90)
Harvard University:
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows (1990-93)
Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (2000-present); Editorial Board Member, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (2000-present); Publication Committee Member, Harvard University Asia Center publication series (2008-present)
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania (Department of East Asian and Near Eastern Studies, now renamed Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations): (1993-96, tenured May 1996)
Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University (1996-2000)
Specialties
Chinese Literature
Awards and Honors
First Class Honors, Chan Kai-ming Prize (first in the Faculty of Arts), University of Hong Kong (1982)
Princeton University Fellowship (1982-87)
Junior fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University (1990-93)
Junior faculty summer research grant, Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, University of Pennsylvania (1994)
Senior scholar research grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (1998-99)
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship; American Council of Learned Societies Research Grant (2002-03)
Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin (2007)
Grant at the Center of Chinese Studies, Taipei (2011)
Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship, Harvard University (2015)
Joseph Levenson Prize (Association of Asian Studies), for Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (2016)
Patrick D. Hanan Translation Book Prize, for Zuo Tradition/Zuozhuan: Commentary on Spring and Autumn Annals (in collaboration with Stephen Durrant and David Schaberg) (2018)
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (Donald J. Munro Centennial Fellow), Guggenheim Fellowship (2018-19)