Dr Emily Zong obtained her PhD in literary studies from The University of Queensland (Australia) and is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include Asian diaspora literature and culture, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, multispecies storytelling, and migration and critical race studies. She has published in Critique, ARIEL, ISLE, JASAL, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, among other venues. Her current project explores the cultural politics of race, species, and migration in the Anthropocene. In 2022, she is awarded an ECS grant from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (No. 22614922) with which she conducts a systematic study of Asian Australian environmental literature and art. 

• Asian diaspora literature and culture
• Environmental humanities and ecocriticism
• Critical animal studies
• Posthuman theory
• New materialism
• Gender and sexuality