Dingning is from Hefei, China. In her junior year, she transferred from Anhui Agricultural University to Colorado State University and received both her BS in biological science and her BA in German language, literature and culture. In her undergraduate years, she focused on her research project about gender study and women’s writing in Weimar Republic, and also LGBT films in that time period with a special focus on the film Mädchen in Uniform. In addition, she also tried to combine science with German study, hoping to find the relationship between technology/science and the German films and literature in early 20th century.
For now, she is interested in exploring the topic of the Weimar Republic further, while she also hopes to focus more on Nazi history and literature. Currently, she is particularly interested in combining Asian study with German study, including the narratives about China in German literature and those about Germany in Chinese, and the history about China taking in a certain proportion of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.