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Carla Nappi, PhD. I’m trained as a historian of China, and in some of my work I specialize in the early modern histories of science and health, and of translation, working primarily (but not exclusively) with Manchu- and Chinese-language documents. I am also deeply interested in historical and writerly craft and method, and a lot of my recent ...
Research Interests. I’m trained as a historian of China, and I specialize in the early modern histories of science and health, and of translation, working primarily (but not exclusively) with Manchu- and Chinese-language documents. In this phase of my research life, I’m doing my best to inhabit my scholarly academic life as a kind of art ...
May 27, 2021 · Invited speaker, Association for Asian Studies Emerging Fields Workshop: Technology in East Asia (Paris, France), 17-18 October 2019 (via Skype). Invited co-leader of seminar, Genealogies of Modernity, University of Pennsylvania, 17-21 June 2019. “Gestures: On Writing Between the Discipline and ‘the Public’.”.
Carla Nappi. I have a habit of finding myself in spaces where I’m not supposed to be. As a first-generation college student at Harvard University, as a paleontologist studying Chinese history in graduate school, as a historian treating history as an art practice in disciplinary contexts and reading poetry at academic conferences, my ...
Carla Nappi is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.
Carla Nappi. I’m trained as a historian of China, and I specialize in the early modern histories of science and health, and of translation, working primarily (but not exclusively) with Manchu- and Chinese-language documents. In this phase of my research life I’m doing my best to inhabit my scholarly academic life as a kind of art practice.
Dr. Carla Nappi Broadly speaking, I study translation among words, individuals, materials, and bodies. I think a lot about how historians create their objects, and what the consequences of a more dynamic understanding of materiality and the ontology of objects might be for practicing the art of history (broadly) and writing histories of ...
