- Email:
- luom@iu.edu
- Office:
- Global and International Studies Building, 2058
Education
- Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2005
Research Interests
- Pre-modern Chinese narratives
- Chinese literati culture
- Traditional Chinese literature
- Gender and cultural studies
Courses Recently Taught
- EALC C306 / C506 Introduction to Literary Chinese I
- EALC C307 / C507 Introduction to Literary Chinese II
- EALC C511 Basic Reference Works in Chinese Studies
- EALC C521 Readings in Chinese Literature
- EALC C600 Seminar in Chinese Studies
- EALC C651 Seminar in Traditional Chinese Literature
- EALC E310 Introduction to East Asian Studies
- EALC E331 Traditional Chinese Literature: From Antiquity to the 13th Century
- EALC E336 / E505 Ghosts, Immortals, Animal Spirits: Encountering the Supernatural in Traditional Chinese Culture
- EALC E351 / E505 Traditional Chinese Women Writers
- EALC E604 East Asian Studies Scholarship
Awards and Distinctions
- 2019–2020, New Frontiers of Creativity and Scholarship, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University
- 2019–2020, New Frontiers-New Currents Grant, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University
- Fall 2019, Conference and Seminar Grant, The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
- 2016–2017, Scholar Grant, The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
- 2014–2015, Mellon Short Term Faculty Fellowship, Mellon Innovating International Research, Teaching and Collaboration (MIIRT), Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President, Indiana University
- Spring 2014, AAS First Book Subvention, Association for Asian Studies
- 2017–2018, 2014–2015, Research Travel Grant, College Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University
- 2012–2013, ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
- 2012–2013, American Fellowship, American Association of University Women
- 2010–2011, New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Grant, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University
Publication Highlights
Monograph:
- Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.
(https://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/LUOLIT.html)
Articles:
- “Duan Chengshi Jingang jing jiuyi li de xushi bianyi” 段成式《金剛經鳩異》裡的敘事變異 (Narrative Variations in Duan Chengshi’s Collected Accounts on the Extraordinariness of the Diamond Sutra), Changjiang xueshu 長江學術 (Yangtze River Academic) 66 (2020): 14–26.
- “The Politics of Place-Making in the Records of Buddhist Monasteries in Luoyang,” T’oung Pao: International Journal of Chinese Studies 105 (2019): 43–75. DOI: 1163/15685322-10512P02
- “Gender, Genre, and Discourse: The Woman Avenger in Medieval Chinese Texts,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 4 (2014): 579–599. DOI: 10.7817/jameroriesoci.134.4.579
- “Tangdai xiaoshuo zhong yishi xingtai yiyi de ‘yao’” 唐代小說中意識形態意義的‘妖’ (The Ideological Meanings of Yao in Tang Stories), Beijing daxue xuebao 北京大學學報 (Journal of Peking University) 50.6 (2013): 93–101.
- “What One Has Heard and Seen: Intellectual Discourse in a Late Eighth-Century Miscellany,” Tang Studies 30 (2012): 23–44. DOI: 1179/0737503412Z.0000000002
- “Remembering Kaiyuan and Tianbao: The Construction of Mosaic Memory in Medieval Historical Miscellanies,” T’oung Pao: International Journal of Chinese Studies 97 (2011): 263–300. DOI: 1163/156853211X604134
- “The Seduction of Authenticity: ‘The Story of Yingying,’” Nannü: Men, Women and Gender in China 1 (2005): 40–70. DOI: 10.1163/1568526054622378