AntjeÌýRichter

  • Professor of Chinese
  • Director of Graduate Studies in Chinese
  • Undergraduate Faculty Advisor (Chinese, Fall 2025)
Address

Eaton Humanities (HUMN) 235

Office Hours

Tuesdays 12:30-1:30pm and by appointment

First trained in English and Germanic Studies at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (East Germany), Antje embarked on a second career in Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, and Chinese Art and Archaeology at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1989. After her doctorate in 1998, she taught at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (where she habilitated in 2004) and Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg. In 2007, she joined the faculty of ALC at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Publications:Ìý

Antje is the author of a monograph on notions of sleep in early Chinese literature (2001, in German) and of the booksÌýLetter Writing and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval ChinaÌý(University of Washington Press, 2013) andÌýHealth & the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese LiteratureÌý(Harvard University Asia Center, 2025). ÌýShe also edited the conference volume,ÌýA History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary CultureÌý(Leiden: Brill, 2015), and is co-editor of three conference volumes (in German). Antje has published articles on aspects of Chinese literature, medicine, and art inÌýMonumenta Serica,ÌýEarly Medieval China,ÌýJournal of the American Oriental Society,ÌýAsia Major,ÌýT’oung Pao,ÌýChinese Medicine and Culture, and other venues.

Research Interests:Ìý

Antje studies the culture of early and medieval China, with research interests in literature, art history, religion, and medical thought.ÌýShe is currently working on a book about the narrative representation of other minds and the development of the literary imagination in Chinese literature, tentatively titledÌýImagining Dragons & How to Carve Them: Studies in Early Medieval Chinese Poetics.