Chen Lin
Associate Professor

Chen Lin holds a Ph.D. (Dr. phil., magna cum laude) in Philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin, where she studied under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erika Fischer-Lichte, Member of the Academia Europaea and Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is currently Associate Professor at the Center for the Humanities, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. Previously, she was Deputy Director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Science and Philosophy at the International Leibniz Research Center, Shandong University.

Her research lies at the intersection of theatre and performance studies, intercultural arts, and ecological virtues. Her work brings together philosophical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives, with particular attention to the body, intersubjectivity, and the community of life. Her current work explores “community aesthetics” in the context of the paradigm revolution of ecological civilization. She is also increasingly interested in the ecological, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of artificial intelligence and in how emerging technologies reshape human relationships with one another, with nature, and with the wider community of life.

Chen is the author of Experimental Xiqu Performances Endure: A Soft Touch of the Wounds with Interweaving Aesthetics (Routledge, 2025), published in the Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies series. She has published in journals including New Theatre Quarterly and Theatre Arts, among others, and serves as an external reviewer for Theatre Arts. She has led projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and provincial teaching-reform programs. Most recently, she completed a policy brief on the cultivation of ecological-virtue algorithms for the large-scale deployment of government intelligent agents. Her forthcoming research examines the body in modern theatre as a site where philosophical, political, and cultural genealogies intersect.