Education
M.A., Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 2021
B.A., Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Dartmouth College, 2019
- cynshin@iu.edu
Research Interests
translation theory; tradaptations; intermediality; posthumanism; exophony and transnational literature; world literature; phenomenology; German language film
About
Cynthia Shin (she/they) is a dual-degree PhD candidate in comparative literature and Germanic studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Her dissertation “Rogue Code: On Representation of Artificial Lives in Sf” traces various tropes of robots, AI, and other artificial lives, and argues that these artificial lives reveal problematic assumptions of humanism, namely that humanness is singular and knowable, and that parts of our humanness are ‘natural.’ Her research interests are in posthumanism, contemporary speculative fiction, exophony, and translation studies.
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