B.A., Harvard University
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Special Interests
Tamara Chin is Director of Undergraduate Studies and associated faculty in the departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and of Classics.
Courses:
- Han dynasty historiography (graduate)
- Mimesis (graduate)
- Money and Literature (graduate)
- Cosmopolitanisms
- Silk Road fictions
- Historicizing desire
- Greek Thought and Literature
Publications:
The Invention of the Silk Road (in progress)
- Savage Exchange: Historical Imaginations of Han Trade and Expansion (Harvard University Press: East Asian Monograph Series, forthcoming)
"Anti-Colonial Metrics: Homeric Time in an Indian Prison, ca. 1909" (accepted, English Literary History)
“Kosmopolitēs/politēs tou kosmou/civis mundi: Preliminary notes on the first cosmopolitans” (under review)
- "The Invention of the Silk Road" (accepted, Critical Inquiry)
“Antiquarian as ethnographer: Han ethnicity in early China studies,” Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China’s Majority, eds. Thomas Mullaney et al. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), pp. 128-146; 287-299 (forthcoming)
“Defamiliarizing the foreigner: Sima Qian’s ethnography and Han-Xiongnu marriage diplomacy,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 70.2 (Dec 2010): 311-54
- "Orienting Mimesis: Marriage and the Book of Songs," Representations 94.1 (2006): 53-79. Special Issue: Mimesis East and West.