Ulrike Middendorf

Research Projects and Interests

• Emotion theory, cross-cultural emotion research, semantics of emotion terms, emotion in early and early medieval Chinese literature
  • Philosophical (masters) texts
  • Poetry (especially Shijing, Chu ci, and yuefu poetry)
  • Historical narrative
  • Medical texts
• Emotion in religion (religious emotion)
  Emotion in art and art criticism (aesthetic emotion)
  Emotion management and meta-emotion
• Early and early medieval poetics and literary aesthetics (including Chinese “artistic prose” [Kunstprosa], “parallelism,” symmetry/asymmetry)
• Early and early medieval epitaph culture
• Early Chinese epigraphy
• Cognitive linguistics, especially metaphor and metonymy theories, euphemism, and wordplay
• Early and early medieval music and music criticism
• Chinese and Japanese painting, calligraphy, and art criticism, with emphasis on social and cultural significance