Dr Flavia Jin

Associate Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2436

Email

yj55@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 201

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

Tuesday 2-3, Wednesday 2-3, by appointment

 

Biography

Dr Jin joined the University of St Andrews in 2026 as an Associate Lecturer in Digital Humanities. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Glasgow (2026) and an MA in Literary and Comparative Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University (2019). Before beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a scriptwriter for historical television drama (Mainland China) and mobile games (Mainland China-US). Alongside her academic work, she practises digital art and collage across different media and platforms.

Teaching

Dr Jin is Convenor of the Digital Humanities programme. She teaches across Digital Humanities, Comparative Literature, and Chinese Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

She teaches the following modules:

• Digital Humanities: Principles and Methods (ML5850)
• Digital Modern Languages (ML5851)
• Digital Global Literatures (ML5852)
• Memory and Storytelling in the Digital Age (ML5853)
• Good and Evil (CO2001)
• Chinese Literature and Culture (CN2012)
• Critical Approaches to Texts (CN1012)

Research areas

Dr Yujia (Flavia) Jin’s research is interdisciplinary, situated at the intersections of comparative literature, history, and digital humanities. Her doctoral research examined how the Italian Renaissance is scripted on the small screen, with particular attention to how serial television and video games reconstruct historical figures and events from the period.

Her broader research explores how history, literature, and cultural memory are adapted and recycled within popular digital culture. She is particularly interested in historical video games and is currently developing research on the digital uses of cultural heritage in different global contexts. 

Selected publications

• Historioludic mimesis: revisiting Auerbach in the age of historical games

  Jin, F., 1 Apr 2026, In: JCLA Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. 49, 1, p. 97-107

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Palimpsestic fantoms in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (2011): a reading on cooperation and conflict through encounters between early modernity and medievalism

  Jin, F., 1 Jun 2024, The Middle Ages in modern games: Conference proceedings, Vol. 5, 2024. Mindrebø, M. E., Iannace, A. M. & Houghton, R. (eds.). Winchester: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, University of Winchester, Vol. 5. p. 81-90

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Open access

  Reading aspects of the Italian Renaissance through representations of the Borgia family on the small screen

  Jin, F., 1 Jan 2024, Early modern voices in contemporary literature and on screen. Moroncini, A. & Kahn, A. M. (eds.). Holden, MA: Quod Manet, p. 219-248 (Studi e ricerche).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Smith, Paul Julian. Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media: Theater, Cinema, Television, Streaming

  Jin, F., 25 Apr 2024, In: Forum for Modern Language Studies. 60, 1, p. 150-151

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

 

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