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Contact Information

Room 2036 | Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistic Building

Office Hours

Fall 2025 W 9:00 -11: 00 am
Ph.D. Candidate

Biography

Yating Li is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her academic background encompasses modern Chinese history, international politics, Chinese philosophy, and gender studies. With a primary research interest in gender and medicine, her proposed dissertation, titled "Ubiquitous Womb Maladies: Medical Knowledge, Women’s Body, and Mirage of Health in China (1902-1949)", seeks to analyze how diverse discourses around womb maladies emerged, circulated, and influenced both medical practices and individual experiences of illness, thereby shedding light on the broader tensions around health, modernity, gender, and sex in Republican Era.

Research Interests

  • Modern Chinese history
  • Gender studies
  • History of Body
  • Medical history
  • Legal history

Education

Renmin University of China, Bachelor of Law, 2020

Grants

Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, SP2025

Graduate College Spring Fellowship, SP2025

EALC Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, SU2023/SU2024

Awards and Honors

Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Students, FA 2023/SP2025

Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, 2020-2023

Courses Taught

EALC/CWL 230 Pop Cultures of Contemporary East Asia (Teaching Assistant)

EALC 250 Introduction to Japanese Culture (Teaching Assistant)

EALC/CWL 275 Masterpieces of East Asian Literature (Teaching Assistant)