Tarryn Chun

Biography

Tarryn Chun is an Associate 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. 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 Chinese theatre, and she teaches courses in Asian theatre, global theatre history, intercultural performance, adaptation, and intersections among theatre and other arts/media.

Her book Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theatre, Technology, and Politics in Modern China (University of Michigan Press, 2024) examines the relationship between technological modernization and artistic innovation in 20th-21st century Chinese theatre. Other projects include a second book manuscript on "Spectacle and Excess in Global Chinese Performance," which received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2021, and a collaboration with Professor Anton Juan on "Theatre for Justice in Asia: Past, Present, Futures." She currently serves on the boards of the Association for Asian Performance and the Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature, and as Online Editor for Theatre Journal.

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