Cara Healey
- Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies
- Detchon Center 126
- 765-361-6163
- healeyc@wabash.edu
Cara Healey is Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department. She earned her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies with an additional emphasis in Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dr. Healey’s research situates contemporary Chinese science fiction in relation to both Chinese literary traditions and global science fiction. Her current project approaches global Chinese science fiction from the perspective of generic hybridity, focusing on the ways texts combine, subvert, and reinterpret conventions of various genres.
Dr. Healey also translates Chinese-language fiction.
At 91成人短视频, Dr. Healey teaches Chinese language courses as well as a variety of Asian Studies courses on history, literature, film, and culture. Her courses are often cross-listed with English, Film and Digital Media, Gender Studies, and History. She recently led students on an immersion experience to Los Angeles and San Francisco as part of her course on California’s Asian American Communities.
Education
- 2017
- Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara - 2013
- M.A. Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2009
- A.B. East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Recent Course Offerings
- Elementary Chinese I
- Elementary Chinese II
- Intermediate Chinese II
- Intermediate Chinese II
- Modern Chinese Literature
- Chinese Science Fiction
- Global Chinese Cinemas
- Martial Arts Film
- East Asian Popular Culture
- Korean Popular Culture
- California’s Asian American Communities (immersion course)
- Introduction to Asian American Studies
- China 1911 to Present
- Premodern China
- Beijing: Past, Present, and Future
- Introduction to Gender Studies: Focus on East Asia
- Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary East Asia
- Freshman Tutorial: Science Fiction
- Freshmen Colloquium
Recent Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- 2024 (forthcoming)
- “Gender and Genre in Chinese Science Fiction: Reading Hao Jingfang’s Folding Beijing and Xia Jia’s ‘One Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight.’” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, vol 21, no. 3, 2024.
- 2021
- “.” Comparative Literature and World Literature, vol. 6, no. 1, 2021, pp. 35-62.
- 2019
- “.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 46, no. 3, 2019, pp. 511-524.
- 2017
- “.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 29, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-33.
Book Chapters and Invited Articles
- 2024 (forthcoming)
- “Generic Collisions and Environmental Destruction in Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes.” Of Butterflies and Bicycles: A Companion to Wu Ming-yi, edited by Michael Berry and Kuei-fen Chiu, Cambria Press, 2024.
- 2023
- “The Success of Chinese Science Fiction.” , edited by Cosima Bruno, Lucas Klein, and Chris Song, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 103-115.
- 2017
- “Kuangren’ yu tiewu: Lu Xun dui Zhongguo dangdai kehuan xiaoshuo de yingxiang.” Translated by Lei Tao. Wenxue, Spring/Summer 2017, pp. 84-98.
- Reprinted in (2024), 2017 Zhongguo kehuan lunwen nianjian (2018), and Sishier shi (2018).
Literary Translations
- 2024
- Shen Dacheng. “.” Clarkesworld, Apr. 2024.
- 2022
- Shen Dacheng. “Blackbird.” , edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang, Tor/Forge, 2022.
- 2018
- Zheng, Egoyan. “.” , edited by Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters, Columbia University Press, 2018, pp. 111-129.
- 2017
- Cheng Jingbo. “Western Paradise.” Pathlight, No. 2, 2017.
- 2016
- Liu Ting. “.” Pathlight, No. 2, 2016.
- 2015
- Teng Xiaolan. “.” Pathlight, Autumn 2015.
- 2015
- Deng Yiguang. “.” Pathlight, Spring 2015.
- 2014
- Zhu Wenying. “.” Pathlight, Autumn 2014.
- 2013
- Tie Ning. “.” Pathlight, Winter 2013.
Book Reviews
- 2024 (forthcoming)
- Review of Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction, by Mingwei Song. The China Journal, vol. 93, 2024.
- 2021
- 2019
Public Scholarship
- 2021
- on The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
- 2017
- on China Channel (Los Angeles Review of Books)