Yu Min (Claire) Rodan

Dr. Claire Rodan is a comparative literature and film scholar specializing in global modernity across East Asian and Western traditions. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University Bloomington, with interdisciplinary training in film theory, literary theory, cultural studies, and transnational aesthetics.

Her research explores the intersections of literature, cinema, visual culture, and critical theory, with particular interests in memory, diaspora, ideology, modernism, and cross-cultural representation. Her work also engages Asian studies, American studies, international relations, and emerging questions surrounding AI, digital humanities, and education.

Dr. Rodan has published in peer-reviewed journals and scholarly volumes in literary and cultural studies. She is the author of Memory Zero Celsius (《記憶零度C》) and To the One in Alaska (《寫給阿拉斯加的》), as well as the pedagogical volumes The Art of War and The Thirty-Six Stratagems, which reinterpret classical Chinese texts through the lenses of language, culture, and strategic thought.