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International Postdoctoral Fellow at Lund/Stavanger/Oxford Universities funded by the Swedish Research Council.

My monograph Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction is forthcoming January 2022 as part of the Cambria Press Sinophone World Series.

In my current research, I look at how contemporary Sinophone works of fiction use botanical characters, plant imagery and green environments to create alternative realities, explore possible futures and deal with traumatic pasts; colouring their writings, so to speak, with the green ink of literary plants.

Other research interests include literary sensory studies, urban Sinophone fiction, spacetime narratology, language and translation, world literature and memory studies

To follow my work, please visit www.xiaoshuo.blog or listen to my podcast Sinophone Unrealities.

Research

My profile in Lund University research portal

Other tasks and qualifications

I am affiliatedwith the Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature (ACCL), the Forum for Comparative Literature at Lund University, the Monster Network, and the Greenhouse EnvironmentalInitiative at UiS.

Teaching includes guest lectures in literature, Chinese studies, posthuman tehories, as well as BA and MA level courses on modern Chinese history and culture.

Recent and forthcoming publications include

(2022) “Trees KeepTime: An Ecocritical Approach to Literary Temporality.” Ecocriticism andChinese Literature: Imagined Landscapes and Real Lived Spaces. Edited ByRiccardo Moratto, Nicoletta Pesaro, Di-kai Chao. Routledge.

(2021) “The City is a Journey: Heritage and Memory in Zhu Tianxin’s Novella ‘The Old Capital’.” International Journal of Heritage Studies, DOI:10.1080/13527258.2020.1731839.

(2020) “Data Narrator: Digital Chronotopes in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction.” SFRAReview 50(2-3), special issue: Alternative Sinofuturisms (中华未来主义): 133-140.

(2017)"Fictional Dictionaries: Power and Philosophy of Language in ContemporaryChinese Fiction." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 29(2):66-108.