Chunjie Zhang is Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Davis, where she is also affiliated faculty in East Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and the Global Migration Center. Zhang is the author of Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism (Northwestern UP, 2017). She edited or co-edited the volumes Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe (2019) and Gender and German Colonialism (2023) as well as journal issues on Aesthetics and Politics in the Wake of the Enlightenment (The Germanic Review, 2020), Goethe, Worlds, and Literatures (Seminar, 2018), and Asian German Studies (German Quarterly, 2020). Her articles appeared in venues such as The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Critical Inquiry, Journal of the History of Ideas, German Studies Review, European Review, Zeithistorische Forschungen, among others.

Research Project at EXC "Temporal Communities":

Meditating with Weimar: Literature and Spirituality