Jin Chang

Jin Chang is a scholar of comparative literature whose work sits at the intersection of aesthetic theory and the history of the novel. She holds a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center, where her dissertation offered a revaluation of the novel through readings of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, and Samuel Beckett in dialogue with Hegel’s Lectures on Fine Arts. She has written on Dostoevsky and Beckett, and her current research centers on a Kantian theory of the ugly. She has taught at Brooklyn College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the New York Institute of Technology, and Reed College.