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Hi, I am Dr. Mercy An

Dr. Mercy An

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teaching

Hi, I am Mengqi (Mercy) An 安梦琪, a teacher-scholar currently based in Colorado, U.S. My teaching is rooted in the humanities broadly and takes a cross-cultural, transmedia approach. Focusing on East Asian literature, film, and culture, as well as the environmental humanities, gender, and modernity, I am committed to serving diverse student populations, supporting student mental health, and fostering community-based learning.


2025–2026 Courses at Colorado College  view all ↗


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Resources for Students

Students interested in my courses or seeking guidance are warmly encouraged to reach out by email.

researching

Book Project

Ecologizing Modernism: Writing with the Nonhuman in Manchuria takes Manchuria — a critical borderland of modern East Asia — as a site of dynamic human–nonhuman interactions from the 1910s through the 1940s. Reading Sinophone and Russophone authors side by side, the study uncovers how Chinese xiangtu writers and Russian writer-naturalists engaged in interrelated ecocritical efforts to forge ethical relations with the nonhuman world. The nonhuman Other emerges as a co-author who disrupts conventional colonial-resistance binaries in the transnational literary landscape.


Research Interests

Chinese Language & Literature  ·  Russian Language & Literature  ·  Environmental Humanities  ·  Women & Gender Studies  ·  Comparative Literature  ·  Literary Theory & Criticism  ·  East Asian Ecocriticism  ·  Sino-Russian Comparative Literature  ·  Popular Culture of East Asia


Education

connecting

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