Associate ProfessorJosh Stenberg

Project Opportunities

Title: Chinese Studies

Summary of opportunity:

Josh Stenberg obtained his B.A. from Harvard College, his M.A. from the University of British Columbia, and his PhD in Chinese Theatre from Nanjing University. He was a Fulbright Taiwan fellow and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in Theatre and Film before taking up his current position at the University of Sydney.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

• Contemporary xiqu in the Chinese World
• Contemporary Sinophone Fiction and Poetry
• Theatre and Performance of Chinese Communities Abroad
• Sino-Indonesian Literature, Performance and Culture
• Chinese Translation Studies
• Global Reception of Chinese Theatre

Supervision

• Contemporary Fiction and Poetry in the Chinese World
• Chinese Culture in Southeast Asia
• Chinese-English Literary Translation
• Internationalisation of Chinese Theatre

----------Current Research Projects----------

• Sino-Indonesian Theatre and Performance
• Xiqu as a Global Genre
• Contemporary Southern Fujian and Taiwanese Theatre
• Contemporary Sino-Indonesian Literature
• Translation of Chen Xue’s Child on the Bridge and Su Tong’s short fiction