Laurence Coderre graduated from Harvard University in 2007 with a degree in Music and East Asian Studies. She subsequently received an A.M. in Regional Studies—East Asia from Harvard in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Modern Chinese Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. Prior to coming to NYU in 2016, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan’s Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

Laurence Coderre
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor
Modern Chinese cultural studies
Material culture
Socialism and postsocialism
The Cultural Revolution
Third World internationalism
Disability studies
A.B. 2007, Music and East Asian Studies, Harvard University
A.M. 2009, Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University,
Ph.D. 2015, Chinese, UC Berkeley
Association for Asian Studies
Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Fellowships and Awards
- 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Study of China, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
- 2014-2015 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
- 2014-2015 Dissertation Fellowship, Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley
- 2013-2014 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, US Department of Education
- 2013-2014 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council
Publications
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Newborn Socialist ThingsMateriality in Maoist ChinaDuke University Press, 2021. (ISBN: 978-1-4780-1430-0)
Selected Articles
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Ma Ji’s “Ode to Friendship” and the Failures of Revolutionary LanguageMaoist Laughter, eds. Ping Zhu, Zhuoyi Wang, and Jason McGrath (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019) 179–96
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Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 61, no. 1 (2019) 23-49
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Cultural Revolution Models on Film: The Third World Politics of Self-Reflexivity in On the Docks (1972)1968 and Global Cinema, eds. Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2018) 345–62
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The Curator, the Investor, and the Dupe: Consumer Desire and Chinese Cultural Revolution MemorabiliaJournal of Material Culture, vol. 21, no. 4 (2016) 429-447
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Breaking Bad: Sabotaging the Production of the Hero in Amateur Performance of YangbanxiListening to China’s Cultural Revolution: The Translation of Musical Culture into Politics, eds. Paul Clark, Laikwan Pang, and Tsan-huang Tsai (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) 65-84
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Meaningful Mobility and the Ties That Bind: 1988 as Postsocialist Road StoryModern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 26, no. 2 (2014) 1-37
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Counterattack: (Re)contextualizing PropagandaJournal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 4, no. 3 (2010) 211-228
Contact Information
Laurence Coderre
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor coderre@nyu.edu 19 University Place, Room 519New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-3826