Dr. Jinhui Wu
Assistant Professor
World Languages and Cultures, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Office Location: DeMille Hall 110G
Email: jinwu@chapman.edu
- Education:
- University of Colorado at Boulder, Master of Arts
University of Arizona, Ph.D.
Biography
Jinhui Wu is an Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of World Languages
and Cultures at Chapman University. She earned her Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from
the University of Arizona and her M.A. in Chinese Language and Civilization from the
University of Colorado Boulder.
Her research focuses on Chinese literature and religion, particularly popular and Buddhist literature, narrative imagination, and the relationship between texts and images. Working at the intersection of literary studies, religious studies, and cultural history, she examines how Buddhist cosmology, vernacular narrative, and print and visual cultures shape moral imagination and social identity across different historical contexts. Her broader research explores the transformation and afterlives of traditional motifs and narrative structures across modern literature, film, performance, and digital media, with particular attention to how different media and visualization technologies reconfigure cultural memory.
Wu is the recipient of several national and international fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a Khyentse Foundation Graduate Excellence Award. Before joining Chapman, she taught at Reed College. She currently teaches courses in Chinese language, literature, and culture at Chapman.
Her research focuses on Chinese literature and religion, particularly popular and Buddhist literature, narrative imagination, and the relationship between texts and images. Working at the intersection of literary studies, religious studies, and cultural history, she examines how Buddhist cosmology, vernacular narrative, and print and visual cultures shape moral imagination and social identity across different historical contexts. Her broader research explores the transformation and afterlives of traditional motifs and narrative structures across modern literature, film, performance, and digital media, with particular attention to how different media and visualization technologies reconfigure cultural memory.
Wu is the recipient of several national and international fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a Khyentse Foundation Graduate Excellence Award. Before joining Chapman, she taught at Reed College. She currently teaches courses in Chinese language, literature, and culture at Chapman.