Judith T. Zeitlin (b. 1958;^[1] Chinese: 蔡九迪) is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.^[2] Her areas of interest are Ming-Qing literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama. In 2011 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[3]

Zeitlin is "Among the most active of the literary scholars who focus on women."^[4]

She is the daughter of classics scholar Froma Zeitlin and the sister of the economic historian Jonathan Zeitlin.^[3]

Selected publications

• Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale_志怪史家:蒲松齡與中國古代傳奇小說 (Stanford, 1993)
• Writing and Materiality in China, co-edited with Lydia Liu (Harvard, 2003)
• "Shared Dreams: The Story of the Three Wives' Commentary on The Peony Pavilion" (1994)
• "Disappearing Verses: Writings on Walls and Anxieties of Loss" in Writing and Materiality (2003)
• "The Life and Death of the Image: Ghosts and Portraits in Chinese Literature" in Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture, ed. Wu Hung and Katherine Tsiang (Harvard, 2005)
• "Notes of Flesh: The Courtesan's Song in Seventeenth-Century China," in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon (Oxford, 2006)
• "The Return of the Palace Lady" in Cultural Innovation and Dynastic Decline, ed. David Wang and Wei Shang (Harvard, 2006)
• "Music and Performance in Palace of Lasting Life" in Trauma and Transcendence in Chinese Literature, ed. Idema, Li, and Widmer (2006)
• "Xiaoshuo" in The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti (2006)

Selected articles in Chinese by Cai Jiudi 蔡九迪

• Chongshen yu fenshen: Mingmo Zhongguo xiqu zhong de hun dan. [Doubling and Splitting the Phantom Heroine in Seventeenth-Century Drama] *In Tang Xianzu yu Mudanting yanjiu [Research on Tang Xianzu and Peony Pavilion], ed. Hua Wei (Taipei, 2006)
• Tibishi yu Ming Qing zhi ji dui funü shi di shouji [Writing on Walls and the Collection of Women’s Poetry in the Late Ming and Early Qing.]
• In Ming Qing wenxue yu xingbie yanjiu [Ming Qing Literature and Gender], ed. Zhang Hongsheng, (Nanjing, 2002)