Pauline Lin

Pauline Lin is an Early Chinese Literary and Cultural Historian, working on Early Chinese Literature and visual culture.  Her research explores the significant changes that occurred in the way nature was perceived and expressed from the 2nd c. BCE to the 2nd century AD. Pauline has published articles on the early Chinese Medieval poets Tao Qian, Ying Qu, Liu Kun, Zhang Heng, as well as on the arts of early to Medieval China, including the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove reliefs and the relationship between painting and literature.  She was trained as a Literary Historian (Stephen Owen, East Asian Languages and Civilizations) and a Visual Historian (Wu Hung, History of Art and Architecture), and did a connoisseurship internship on Chinese painting at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington DC, studying with Marily Wong-Gleysteen and Jason Kuo.  Prior to coming to Yale, she was Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Bryn Mawr.  At Yale, she is a Senior Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures, and teaches courses on Chinese Landscape Culture, Early Chinese Cities, Sinological Methods, Literary Chinese, and  writes on early Chinese thoughts on nature and landscape.