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Chinese Name
宗妤
Biography
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.
Research Interests
- Asian diaspora literature and culture
- Environmental humanities and ecocriticism
- Critical animal studies
- Posthuman theory
- New materialism
- Gender and sexuality
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Education/Academic qualification
English, PhD, Asian Australian and Asian American Women's Fiction, The University of Queensland
External positions
The University of Queensland
Keywords
- PN0080 Criticism
- PR English literature
- PN0441 Literary History
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Towards Anti-Racist Nature: Asian Australian Environmental Literature and Art
1/01/23 → …
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Research Output
- 6 Article
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Toward an Ethics of Witnessing: Refugee Memory and Community in Gish Jen’s World and Town
Zong, E. Y., 1 Jan 2023, In: Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 64, 1, p. 61-72 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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That "Willful" Migrant Adulteress: Female Embodiment and Diasporic Melancholia in Chandani Lokuge's Softly, as I Leave You
Zong, E. Y., 5 Mar 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction. p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anachronism in the Anthropocene: Plural Temporalities and the Art of Noticing in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
Zong, E. Y., 2 Oct 2021, In: LIT Literature Interpretation Theory. 32, 4, p. 305-321 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dragon Lovers and Plant Politics: Queering the Nonhuman in Hoa Pham’s Wave and Ellen Van Neerven’s “Water”
Zong, E. Y., 9 Oct 2021, In: ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 28, 3, p. 1048-1065 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The voice of diversity: Picture brides and masked individuality in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
Zong, E. Y., 2 Nov 2021, In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 57, 6, p. 841-855 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review