Rate My Professor Jin Feng

Professor Feng's scholarship centers on Chinese literature and culture, encompassing foodways, web romance, family sagas, the new woman in early twentieth-century fiction, and the institutionalization of creative writing programs in China. Her publications include five monographs in English: The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China (Columbia University Press, 2024), Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways (University of Washington Press, 2019), Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance (Brill, 2013), The Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College (SUNY Press, 2009), and The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Purdue University Press, 2004). She has also authored or edited three books in Chinese and published numerous peer-reviewed articles in outlets such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Popular Romance Studies, Global Food History, and Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. Her work explores themes like food nostalgia, gender and power in culinary narratives, and popular literature in the digital age. In January 2026, she was awarded a grant from ASIANetwork and the Mellon Foundation for her digital humanities project “We Are What We Eat (and Serve): Chinese American Restaurants in Iowa and Beyond.” She is currently researching “Grinnell-in-China, China in Grinnell.”