Qinna Shen

QINNA SHEN received her PhD in German from Yale and is Associate Professor and Chair of German at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films (2015) and co-edited volumes Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia (2014) and Charting Asian German Film History (2025). She is on the editorial board of German Studies Review and is currently co-editing the special issue marking the German Studies Association's 50th anniversary in 2026.