Gerald Jia Ding
Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature, admitted Autumn 2018
2016-2017: M.A., Comparative Literature, Edinburgh University
2013-2016: B.A., Germanistik, University of Leipzig
- Born and raised in a small town in southern China;
- Spent five years roaming in Europe; studied German literature, philosophy and art history;
- Currently writing a dissertation on what he calls the "lyrical mode" in 20th-century literature and cinema
Courses Taught:
- CompLit 144: The Idea of the "Poetic" (Spring 2024)
- CompLit 138: Literature and the Brain (Winter 2024)
- CompLit 240: Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetry and the Meaning of Life (Spring 2023)
- CompLit 121: Poetry, Poems, Worlds (Autumn 2022)
- CompLit 199: Senior Seminar (Winter 2021-22)
- CHINLANG 2: First-Year Modern Chinese, Second Quarter (Winter 2020-21)
- CHINLANG 1: First-Year Modern Chinese, First Quarter (Autumn 2020)