Tina Lu - President of the MLA

Tina Lu is the president of Modern Language Associate and the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and the head of Pauli Murray College at Yale University. She taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2008. Lu received her PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University.

Her research focuses on the literature of the Chinese late imperial period, from around 1550 to around 1750, including novels, plays, and belletristic writing. Lu is the author of Persons, Roles, and Minds: Identity in Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan (2001) and Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (2009). She is the coeditor of Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (2012). Her work has appeared in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and the Journal of Asian Studies, among many other publications.

Lu serves as associate editor of T’oung Pao. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Humanities Center.

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