Rivi Handler-Spitz studies, teaches, writes and draws about Chinese literature, comparative literature, and early modern (16-18th c.) cultural and intellectual history. She has studied modern and classical Chinese in Mainland China and Taiwan, as well as at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, where she also studied French and Latin. Before joining the faculty at Macalester, she taught courses on Chinese language and literature, world literature, and comparative literature at Brown University and Middlebury College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Current Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rivi is currently researching, writing, and drawing a book-length graphic narrative on the international and racial history of Chinese script reform. One chapter, \u201cSavage Script: How Chinese Writing Became Barbaric\u201d<\/strong><\/a>, appeared in Global Anti-Asian Racism<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Columbia University Press, 2024). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Other recent and forthcoming work explores the ethical dimensions of teacher-student relationships in late imperial China as depicted in Neo-Confucian \u8a9e\u9304 yulu<\/em>, texts that record conversations between teachers and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Public Scholarship in Graphic Narrative Format<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fellowships and Grants <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024-2025 Getty Research Institute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2023-2026 British Academy, Chinese Global Orders<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2023-2024 Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2020-2021 National Humanities Center<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On Savage Script<\/strong><\/a> (in Mandarin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n On \u201cRecorded Sayings\u201d (\u8a9e\u9304 <\/strong>yulu<\/em><\/strong>) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n On <\/strong>A Book to Burn and A Book to Keep (Hidden)<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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