Judith T. Zeitlin (b. 1958;[1] Chinese: 蔡九迪) is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the
University of Chicago.[2] Her areas of interest are
Ming-
Qing literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama. In 2011 she was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
Zeitlin is "Among the most active
of the literary scholars who focus on women."[4]
Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale_志怪史家:蒲松齡與中國古代傳奇小說 (
Stanford, 1993)
Writing and Materiality in China, co-edited with
Lydia Liu (
Harvard, 2003)
"Shared Dreams: The Story of the Three Wives' Commentary on The Peony Pavilion" (1994)
"Disappearing Verses: Writings on Walls and Anxieties of Loss" in Writing and Materiality (2003)
"The Life and Death of the Image: Ghosts and Portraits in Chinese Literature" in Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture, ed. Wu Hung and Katherine Tsiang (Harvard, 2005)
"Notes of Flesh: The Courtesan's Song in Seventeenth-Century China," in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon (
Oxford, 2006)
"The Return of the Palace Lady" in Cultural Innovation and Dynastic Decline, ed. David Wang and Wei Shang (Harvard, 2006)
"Music and Performance in Palace of Lasting Life" in Trauma and Transcendence in Chinese Literature, ed. Idema, Li, and Widmer (2006)