Academic Education
07/2022 - 09/2022	Research stay at Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan (funded by Emerging Talents Initiative ETI, FAU)
09/2018	Research stay at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (funded by DAAD, PAJAKO Program)
08/2017 - 09/2017	Research stay at Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan (funded by DAAD, PAJAKO Program)
06/2017	PhD (summa cum laude), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Thesis title: “Realising a Character’s True Meaning: Divination and Script-Contemplation in the Zichu 字觸 by Zhou Lianggong 周亮工 (1612–1672)“
11/2014 - 03/2015	Research stay in Taipei, Taiwan (funded by Villigst e.V.)
02/2013 - 06/2013	Research stay at Zhouyi Center, Shandong University, in Jinan, China (funded by Villigst e.V.)
02/2010	M.A. in English Cultural Studies, Sinology and Japanese Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
10/2006 - 10/2007	Japanese language and culture studies at Yamaguchi University in Yamaguchi, Japan
Work Experience
10/2020 - 02/2024	Research fellow, Institute of Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
04/2020 - 09/2020	Visiting Fellow / Postdoctoral Fellow, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF), Erlangen
08/2015 - 03/2020	Research fellow, Institute of Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
02/2011 - 08/2015	Research assistant, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF), Erlangen

Gimm, Martin: Kleine Schriften. Zur Geschichte und Kultur der Qing-Dynastie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2023 (= Sinologica Coloniensia 38). € 68,00. ISBN 978-3-447-11985-6. Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin (2024) In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 119(3). Review (journal)
Enigmatic Concepts: On the History of Riddles in China and the West Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin (2023) In: Contributions to the History of Concepts, 18(2). Research article (journal)
Of Words, Change, and Transplantations: Reshaping Chinese Concepts between Empire and Modernity Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin; Brusadelli, Federico; Grimberg, Phillip (2023) In: Contributions to the History of Concepts, 18(2). Research article (journal)
‚A Living Tradition‘: Tracing Chinese Character Divination from Imperial China to Contemporary Taiwan Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin (2023) In: Monumenta Serica, 71(2). Research article (journal)
Do Not Teach the Present Generation by Using the Methods of the Ancients: Applying Digital Methods to Enhance Literary Chinese Classes Schmiedl, Anne Kathrin (2021) In: Li, Wen; Kauz, Ralph (eds.), Teaching Classical Chinese: Zum Unterricht des Klassischen Chinesischen 文言文教學. Schweinfurt: Ostasien-Verlag. Research article (book contribution)

Same and/or Other? The Hare in Chinese Mythological Literature Schmiedl, Anne (08/05/2025) Same and/or Other? Animals in East Asian History, Münster Type of talk: scientific talk
Unveiling the Hidden – Divining the Future through Chinese Characters Schmiedl, Anne (06/03/2025) Divination in the Ancient Near East: Indigenous and Borrowed Traditions and their ‘Sitz im Leben’, München Type of talk: scientific talk
Founding “Myth”: The Formation and Ideological Ramifications of the Concept of “Myth” in 20th Century China Schmiedl, Anne (05/12/2024) 25th International Conference on the History of Concepts – Political Ideologies: Tracing the History of Concepts and…, Rio de Janeiro Type of talk: scientific talk
Transimperial Knowledge Transfer between Europe, China and Japan, 1850-1920 Schmiedl, Anne (10/10/2024) Empire Studies: (Post)Colonial Histories and Global Entanglements, Universität Münster Type of talk: scientific talk
Von Übernatürlichen Figuren und Menschlichen Normen: „Ab/Normalität“ in der mythischen Literatur der chinesischen Kaiserzeit Schmiedl, Anne (24/11/2023) Yi/chang 異/常 – Ab-/Normalität in China - XXXIV. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS), Lehrstuhl für Sinologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Type of talk: scientific talk