Lidong Xiang

Lidong's Affiliations: Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Lidong Xiang (she/her) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, affiliated with the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Studies Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Childhood Studies from Rutgers University and has been a visiting scholar at the International Youth Library in Munich. She also serves on the U.S. Children’s Literature Association’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nomination committee.

Her research centers on children’s and young adult literature in both Western and Chinese contexts, global childhood studies, girlhood studies, and children’s geographies. Her recent publications in both Chinese and English address topics including the representation of left-behind children in Chinese film and media, urban girls’ subjectivity, affect studies of children’s periodicals, censorship in publishing, and queer possibilities in young adult literature.

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Courses

ENGLIT 0562: Childhood’s Books

ENGLIT 1386: Global Children’s Literature

ENGLIT 1645: Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature

ENGLIT 1910: Senior Seminar on Global Children’s Literature

Graduate Course

ENGLIT 2804: City and the Young

Research Interests:

Girlhood studies, global childhoods, environmental injustices and childhood, violence, trauma, and memory studies.