Han Li joins the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Rhodes in 2008.  She received her B.A. in Chinese Literature from Nanjing University and her PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of California Irvine.  Her dissertation, entitled “News, Public Opinions and History: Fiction on Current Events in Seventeenth-Century China”, attempts to explore the cultural conditions surrounding the production, circulation and consumption of this special genre of “fiction on current events” in the historical contexts as well as the complex roles these works played in the larger intellectual, social and political realms of seventeenth-century China. Her research interests include traditional Chinese fiction, narrative theory, and the cultural history of late imperial China. She is currently teaching Chinese 101 and will be offering language classes at other levels and classes on Chinese literature.