Susanna Sun

regional managing editor

Susanna Sun is a current PhD student in the joint program in Theatre and Performance Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her main area of research is cross-dressing performance in Chinese opera as well as its engagement in different media forms from the late imperial period to the modern era. She is deeply passionate about performing the xiaosheng (young male lead) role type in the all-woman Chinese opera genre of Yue opera as well as Kun opera. She has a diverse range of interests in theatre, philosophy, music, gender, and cross-cultural communications, as well as in more focused topics such as opera films, musicals, adaptation, material culture, aesthetics of motion and revolutionary culture. She likes to bring attention to the perspectives of artists, delving into details that reflexively generate new insights into larger fundamental philosophical and historical concerns.