The College Record 2022

Reports and College Activities
author will be an overview of the history of the 400-year-old Chair, as well as chapters
on the nineteenth-century incumbents.
Alongside research work, I have organised three small conferences under the
auspices of the British Society for the History of Mathematics: a regular meeting
for research students in the history of mathematics, which takes place in Queen’s
every year, another on the Sedleian Professors, and also a conference in memory
of Peter M. Neumann.
In August 2021, I was elected a full member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and
Letters (Norway).
Coraline Jortay (Chinese)
For me, joining Queen’s and its thriving community as
a Laming Junior Research Fellow in October 2021 was
undoubtedly the most significant highlight of this past
academic year. Another was receiving the Early Career
Researcher Prize from the British Association of Chinese
Studies for my article “Reclaiming Rubbish: Feiwu at
the Intersections of Gender, Class, and Disability in Xiao
Hong’s Market Street and Field of Life and Death,” which was published in January
2022 in the British Journal of Chinese Studies.
Most of the year was dedicated to working on my book manuscript, Pronoun Politics:
Gender as a Linguistic Battleground. The project is developed from my dissertation,
which received the Marie-Antoinette Van Huele Outstanding Dissertation Award in
May 2022. It investigates the debates surrounding gender equality that rocked the
Chinese intellectual and literary scenes after gendered pronouns were introduced
into modern vernacular Chinese through literary translation in the late 1910s.
This past year has also been a fruitful one for collaborative projects, with two coedited
volumes: a special issue of the journal Sextant entitled Precarious Peripheries:
Gender from the Margins of China, with Jennifer Bond (UCL) and Chang Liu (CUHK
Shenzhen), as well as an anthology of contemporary Hong Kong literature in French
translation with Gwennaël Gaffric (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) at Editions Jentayu.
Both volumes are forthcoming in September 2022.
16 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022