Sharon Sanderovitch earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and pursued postdoctoral research at Tel Aviv University, the Center for Chinese Studies (Taipei), and most recently, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellow. Her study of early-imperial Chinese intellectual history encompasses political rhetoric, poetry, and historiography, as well as an evolving interest in the traces of Han visual culture in the surviving literature from the period. Working across literary genres, she examines intersections of body, politics, and representation, particularly as pertaining to the discourse of monarchical rulership in the formative centuries of the long imperial era.
In the past couple of years she has collaborated with Taiwan-based colleagues in organizing a monthly online colloquium hosted by Academia Sinica’s Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy (February – July 2022), contributed chapters to forthcoming volumes, and presented her ongoing research in various professional venues, most recently the Needham Research Institute (Cambridge UK, June 2023). She is now working on two book manuscripts, for both general and academic readership—one deepening the grasp of the rich, multi-layered early-imperial political discourse, and the other introducing one such relevant and highly influential intellectual thread to contemporary Hebrew readers.
Affiliate Temporary Member, 2023-2024
Contact: sharon.sanderovitch@mail.huji.ac.il