Alexei Ditter
Professor of Chinese
Chinese Department
Division of Literature and Languages
Alexei Kamran Ditter (迪磊) is Professor of Chinese and Humanities at Reed College. He received his B.A. in East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Professor Ditter joined the Reed faculty in 2006 and received tenure in 2012. He teaches Chinese Humanities (Hum 231/232), modern and classical Chinese language at all levels, and courses on medieval (3rd–10th c.) and late imperial (14th–19th c.) Chinese literature. His research focuses on genre and memory in medieval Chinese literature and commemorative writing, with particular expertise in Tang entombed epitaphs (muzhiming). He is co-editor and contributor to Tales from Tang Dynasty China (Hackett, 2017) and has published articles and chapters in T’oung Pao, Tang Studies, A/B(forthcoming), and volumes on medieval Chinese literary culture. His current projects include two monographs—Collaborative Remembering in 7th–10th Century China and Memory and Genre in Late Medieval China—and the co-edited volumes The Study of Medieval Chinese Entombed Epitaphs (Brill, forthcoming) and Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Middle Period China, 600–1300: A Critical Anthology (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming). His research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies, and the National Humanities Center.