DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

Sihan Wang

Visiting Assistant Professor

• sihanwang2023@u.northwestern.edu
• 1880 Campus Drive, Kresge Hall, Office 4-520

Sihan Wang specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese-language cultures at the intersection of aesthetics and spirituality. She received her PhD in Comparative Literary Studies & Asian Languages and Cultures from Northwestern University in 2025. Her research explores the question of alternative temporality in creative forms. Her current book project, East of Now: Chan Aesthetics and Chinese Modernity, examines how modern and contemporary Chinese-language artists and writers rework Chan Buddhist aesthetics to experiment with ways of making and experiencing art and time.