
Nathan Vedal
Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature
Office:
227 Busch Hall
Mailbox:
Campus Box 1111
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Professor Vedal's research interests include early modern Chinese cultural and intellectual history, with a particular focus on the history of knowledge production and the history of the book. His current book project, Scholarly Culture in Late Imperial China, explores the history of philology and the formation of scholarly disciplines. He earned his doctorate at Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Humanities & Information.
Courses Taught
- L04 227C Chinese Civilization
- L04 330 Stranger Things: Tales of the Supernatural in Chinese Literature