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Society of Sinophone Studies Board Members
Chair: E.K. Tan
E.K. Tan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, and Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative and World Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in the intersection of Anglophone and Sinophone literature, cinema, and culture, inter-Asia cultural studies, postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, film theory, queer Asian studies, and world literature and cinema. He is the author of Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World (Cambria 2013) and is currently working on two projects tentatively titled Queer Homecoming in Sinophone Cultures: Translocal Remapping of Kinship, and Mandarinization and Its Impact on Sinophone Cultural Production: A Transcolonial Comparison of Ethnic China, Singapore and Taiwan. Please click here for more information on his works.
Vice Chair: Alvin k. Wong
Alvin K. Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. His research and teaching interests include Hong Kong culture, Chinese cultural studies, Sinophone studies, transnational feminism, and queer theory. Wong is writing a book titled Queer Hong Kong as Method. He has published in journals such as Journal of Lesbian Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, Culture, Theory, and Critique, Concentric, Cultural Dynamics, Continuum, and Interventions and in edited volumes such as Transgender China (Palgrave, 2012), Queer Sinophone Cultures (Routledge, 2014), Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China (Rowan & Littlefield, 2016), and Fredric Jameson and Film Theory (Rutgers University Press, 2022). He also coedited the volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge, 2020). Wong is an associate editor of Journal of Intercultural Studies and co- editor of the HKU Press book series, Entanglements.
Secretary-Treasurer:Rebecca Ehrenwirth
Rebecca Ehrenwirth is a Professor of Translation (Chinese-German) at the University of Applied Languages/SDI Munich. She holds a Ph.D. in Sinology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Rebecca’s research interests include Sinophone Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Queer Film Studies, Contemporary Chinese Art and Film, and Creative Teaching Techniques. She is the author of Zeitgenössische sinophone Literatur in Thailand (Contemporary Sinophone Literature from Thailand, Harrassowitz, 2018).
Program Director: Clara Iwasaki
Clara Iwasaki is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at the University of Alberta. Her book, Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon (Cambria 2020) focused on questions of authorship, translation, and multilingualism in modern Chinese literature across the transpacific. She is currently working on a new project on representations of ethnic and racial ambiguity in the transpacific spanning China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States, and Canada.
Communications Director: Lily wong
Lily Wong is Associate Professor in the Departments of Literature, and Critical Race Gender & Culture at American University. She also serves as an Associate Director at AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center. Her research focuses on the politics of affective labor, racial capitalism, minor-transnational coalitional movements, and media formations of transpacific Chinese, Sinophone, and Asian American communities. Her work can be found in journals including American Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Asian Cinema, and Asian American Literary Review, among others. She has published book chapters in World Cinema and the Visual Arts (2013), Queer Sinophone Cultures (2013), Divided Lenses: War and Film Memory in Asia (2016), and Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (2020). She is the author of the book Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Columbia University Press, 2018).
Advisor: Howard Chiang
Howard Chiang is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the history of modern China and global Sinophone cultures, with an emphasis on the critical studies of science, medicine, gender, and sexuality. He is the author of Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (Columbia UP, 2021), and After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia UP, 2018), which received the 2019 International Convention of Asia Scholars Humanities Book Prize.