Qinna Shen

Qinna Shen is Assistant Professor of German at Bryn Mawr College in the suburb of Philadelphia. Her research interests concentrate on the areas of German Studies (20th century), Film Studies, and Transnational Studies with a focus on German-Asian cultural relations. She has co-edited Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia (Berghahn, 2014). Her monograph entitled The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films (Wayne State UP, 2015) is the first comprehensive, critical, book...See more

Qinna Shen is Assistant Professor of German at Bryn Mawr College in the suburb of Philadelphia. Her research interests concentrate on the areas of German Studies (20th century), Film Studies, and Transnational Studies with a focus on German-Asian cultural relations. She has co-edited Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia (Berghahn, 2014). Her monograph entitled The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films (Wayne State UP, 2015) is the first comprehensive, critical, book-length treatment of the live-action fairy-tale films from former East Germany. Her next book project is tentatively titled "Raising the 'Bamboo Curtain': Film Exchange between China and Divided Germany." It will focus primarily on international film trade, genres, cultural politics, censorship, reception, as well as on German-Chinese co-productions. See less