Wandi Wang stands with her committee members and the Department chair, with one additional member appearing on a laptop in front of them.

Wandi Wang defends dissertation, accepts professorship at Lehigh University

We are delighted to announce that EALCS PhD candidate Wandi Wang successfully defended her dissertation, “Taste and Gastropoetics in Traditional China, Ninth to Seventeenth Centuries CE,” on May 30, 2025. She has also accepted an offer to take up a position as Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Lehigh University.

Congratulations, Professor Wang!