about
Tarryn Li-Min Chun is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, where she holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and is a Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Prior to joining the faculty at Notre Dame, she completed her Ph.D. in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Sinophone theatre, and she teaches courses in Asian theatre, global theatre history, intercultural performance, adaptation, and intersections among theatre and other arts/media.
Her work also has appeared in journals such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, TDR, and Asian Theatre Journal, as well as in several edited volumes. She is co-editor with Xiaomei Chen and Siyuan Liu of Rethinking Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era (University of Michigan Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Excellence in Editing Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She currently serves on the boards of the Association for Asian Performance and the Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature, and is Online Editor for Theatre Journal.
Her first book, Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China (University of Michigan Press, June 2024) examines the relationships among technological modernization, artistic innovation, and politics in early-to-mid 20th-century Chinese theatre. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2021) for work on her second book project, “Spectacle and Excess in Global Chinese Performance.” This new project looks at the use of multimedia and digital technologies in the staging of large-scale Sinophone performance in the 21st century, as well as in the promotion, dissemination, and responses to those works.
Tarryn Li-Min Chun 陳琍敏 