Aolan Mi

Aolan Mi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is interested in modern Chinese literature and culture, specifically how literary imagination intersects with the discourse of science and technology. Her dissertation, Revolutionary Engine: Railways and Culture in Socialist China, examines the ways in which railways - as symbols, material objects, and cultural institutions - were transformed into revolutionary organs through practices of writing in socialist China.
She has worked as an associate instructor for Chinese language classes and area studies classes that cover a variety of topics, including East Asian popular culture, contemporary Chinese politics, Japanese horror films, and East Asian history. Her research has been supported by the IU College of Arts and Sciences (CoAS) Dissertation Research Fellowship. Prior to coming to IU, she received her B.A. in Chinese Literature and M.A. in Comparative Literature from Renmin University of China.