Speaker Details
Prof. Karen Laura Thornber
is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, USA. She has authored three major scholarly monographs: Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Harvard 2009); Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures (Michigan 2012); and Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care (Brill 2020). Prof. Thornber is also the author of multiple (co)edited volumes and more than 70 articles/book chapters on a range of fields in literature and cultural history globally. She is interested in a wide range of research fields such as the medical humanities, health humanities (including chronic illness, death and dying, mental health, and disability), environmental humanities; displacement, migration, diaspora; social justice, including inequality, and economic, health, racial, criminal, and environmental justice; gender, Asian/global feminisms, gender and leadership; trauma; and global and comparative indigeneities.