Department of Linguistics

Staff

Dr. Justyna Jaguścik

Assistant Lecturer

Phone
+41 31 684 83 85
E-Mail
justyna.jaguscik@unibe.ch
Office
B 170
Postal Address
Universität Bern
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
Länggassstrasse 49
3012 Bern

Research Profile

I hold a joint doctorate in Chinese Studies from the University of Zurich and the University of Warsaw and additionally, an MA degree in Sociology from the University of Warsaw. In 2015 my dissertation entitled “Literary Body Discourses. Corporeality, Gender and Class Difference in Contemporary Chinese Women’s Poetry and Fiction” was awarded the annual research prize by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich. After completion of my PhD, I worked in the Chinese Studies Department of the University of Zurich as a lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin). In Summer 2021 I joined the University of Bern as a senior lecturer with tenure track (Assistentdozentin). Since then, I have been based at the Institute of Linguistics, for which I developed a new Bachelor Minor study program, “Chinese Language and Society,” dedicated to modern Chinese language and the history and culture of Chinese-speaking regions. Currently, I teach modern Chinese language and continue my research on Chinese literature and culture.

My main research interests are modern and contemporary Chinese-language poetry, transnational feminism, ecocriticism and nonconfrontational cultural activism. Since 2011 I have coorganized several international workshops dedicated to a broad range of topics, such as Chinese responses to the Anthropocene (2015), Chinese utopianism (2018) and the newest trends in contemporary Chinese and Sinophone poetry (2022). I am also an active member of the academic community and serve as Board Member and Secretary-General of the European Association for Chinese Studies. 

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

  • Jaguścik, J. (2021) “In Search of Spaces of Their Own: Woolf, Feminism and Women’s Poetry from China.” In The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature, 314- 322. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Jaguścik, J. (2019). “Intersections of Class, Gender and Environmental Concern in Contemporary Chinese Poetry: Zheng Xiaoqiong and Her Writing from Below.” In Joanna Frużyńska (ed.), Kobieta w oczach kobiet. Kobiece (auto)narracje w perspektywie transkulturowej, 244-254. Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press.
  • Jaguscik, J. (2018). “From France to China’s Internet – écriture feminine chinoise.” In Angelika Malinar and Simone Müller (eds.), Asia and Europe. Interconnected: Agents, Concepts, and Things, 253-294. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Jaguścik, J. (2021) “New Dynamics: Chinese Women’s Poetry Enacted.” International Journal for Comparative Cultural Studies 2: 195-224.
  • Jaguścik, J. (2019). “The Time Travels of a Handscroll: Past and Present in Zhai Yongming’s Landscape Poem ‘Roaming the Fuchun Mountains with Huang Gongwang.” International Communication of Chinese Culture (online). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40636-019-00141-5
  • Jaguścik, J. (2018). “Feminist Responses to the Anthropocene: Voices from China.” International Communication of Chinese Culture (online). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40636-018-0112-y
  • Riemenschnitter, A., Imbach, J. & Jaguscik, J. (2014). “Foreword.” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese. Special Issue on “Recognizing Ghosts” 12.1: 8-12.
  • Jaguscik, J. (2014). “‘The Woman Attempting to Disrupt the Ritual’: Representations of Femininity and the Poetics of the Subaltern Body in Contemporary Chinese Female-Authored Poetry.” Harvard Asia Quarterly 3: 60-70.
  • Translation: Coppens, L., Jaguscik, J. & Riefert, C. (2011). “Rey Chow ‘Film und Kulturelle Identität’”, in Bettina Dennerlein Bettina, Elke Frietsch (eds.), Identitäten in Bewegung. Migration im Film. Bielefeld: transcript (English - German), 19-32.
  • (2012) 翟永明：与杨爽 (Justyna Jaguscik)⼀席访谈 Zhai Yongming: yu Yang Shuang yi xi fangtan 3 (Interview with Zhai Yongming). New Poetry Review (评论新诗 Pinglun xinshi) 2: 255-276. (in Chinese).

Teaching

Bachelor in Chinese Studies

Lectures (Vorlesungen):

  • Traditionelle Chinesische Literatur (Einführung) (2014-2020)
  • Moderne und zeitgenössische chinesische Literatur (Einführung) (2015-2021)

Topical Seminars, selected (Proseminare, Seminare)

  • Marginalität und Subversion in der modernen chinesischen Literatur (Spring 2020)
  • Gesellschaftskritische Literatur und Kunst in China (Fall 2019)
  • Gendering China: Das andere Geschlecht unter postsozialistischen Bedingungen (Fall 2018)
  • China im Umbruch: Literarische Trends und intellektuelle Debatten seit 1978 (Spring 2018)
  • Stadt, Frau, Mann – Topographien der Geschlechter in der chinesischen Moderne (Fall 2017)
  • Liebesdiskurse im modernen China: Literatur und Film (Spring 2017)
  • Familie in China: Zwischen Tradition und Politik (Fall 2016)
  • Dimensionen sozialer Ungleichheiten: Einblicke in die chinesische Gegenwart (Fall 2015)
  • Gegenwartsdiskurse und soziologische Kernfragen in der VR China (Fall 2014)

Chinese Language and Translation

  • Modernchinesisch III: Übersetzungsübung (Spring 2010, 2011)
  • Modern Chinese language I & II (Beginners) (Warsaw, 2007-2009)
  • Elementary Modern Standard Chinese (since 2021)
  • Pre-Intermediate Modern Standard Chinese (since 2021)
  • Pre-Intermediate Modern Standard Chinese (Spring 2022)
  • Introduction to Basic Chinese Grammar (Spring 2023)

Master in Chinese Studies

Seminars

  • The subaltern in Chinese cultural production (Spring 2017)
  • Liebe im chinesischen Film: Zwischen Passion und sozialer Disziplinierung (Spring 2015)
  • Gender im chinesischen Film: Liebe, Familie, Sexualität (Spring 2013)