Qing Bi, Associate professor of English in the School of Foreign Studies, Jiangsu Normal University, China, will be visiting Ohio State this year as an International Scholar in the Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies Program.

Her research and teaching interests are in American Jewish Literature with a focus on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fiction, Jewish culture, and critical theory. Her publications include “The Semiotic Square in The Magician of Lublin” (Foreign Literature Studies 24.2, 2002), “The Devotee of God: on Jewish Religious Ethics in ‘Gimpel the Fool’” (Journal of Guangxi Normal University 45.6, 2009), and “The Narrative Structure and its Cultural Connotation in The Manor” (Journal of Xuzhou Normal University 35.6, 2009). Currently she is working on a project “Representation in Diaspora: a cultural study of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fiction”. It mainly attends to the artistic representation strategies employed in Bashevis Singer’s fiction and their function in reflecting Singer’s creative ideology, philosophical and religious thinking, and political-cultural appeal in a multi-cultural society.