Oscar V. Campomanes
teaches in the newly established Program in Literary and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, and holds the Rev James F Donelan SJ Endowed Professorial Chair in the Humanities in the Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines). New publications include an expanded essay on the Filipino American Marxist writer Carlos Bulosan in Mari Jo Buhle et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the American Left (Verso, London; forthcoming), and a vernacular critique of maritime concepts and conflicts involving the Philippines (“Apendise 2”) in K. P. Martija et al., eds., Babala ng Pantayong Pananaw sa Bansa: Panganib mula sa Mga Nakikipagjetski (Bagong Kasaysayan, Quezon City; forthcoming). The book he co-edited with the Filipinist economic historian Yoshiko Nagano and anthropologist Nobutaka Suzuki, Colonialism and Modernity: Re-Mapping Philippine Histories, was published by Ateneo de Naga University Press in 2022, and is a finalist for the category of History in the 2023 National Book Awards (Philippines).
Chun-Mei Chuang
is a Professor of Sociology at Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan. She has authored three monographs in Chinese, the most recent of which is “The Postcolonial Anthropocene: Performative Politics of Life” (Taipei: Socio Publishing, 2023). In addition, she has published numerous journal papers on feminist theory, trans-species politics, and planetary imagination.
Woosung Kang
is Professor of Department of English and Chair of Comparative Literature Program at Seoul National University, Korea. He is a member of the advisory board for The International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia, a board member of Asia Theories Network, and a member of Theory Committee in International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). His research area includes American literature and culture, politics of aesthetics, critical theories, psychoanalysis, film theory, and Asian cinema. He is the author of Freud Seminar (2019), Painting as the Gaze of Philosophy (2014), and The Birth of a Style: Emerson and the Writing of the Moment in the American Renaissance (2003). He published articles in journals such as Interventions, Concentric, Parallax, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia. He contributed articles in books like Deleuze, Guattari, and Fascism (2022), Concepts: A Travelogue (2022), Beyond Apocalypse:
Satofumi Kawamura
is Associate Professor of media and cultural studies of Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo Japan. His research interests are media and cultural theory, critical theory, and Japanese media culture. His recent publications include “Love Live! as an Affective-Religious Medium in the Postsecular Era” in Idology in Transcultural Perspective: Anthropological Investigations of Popular Idolatry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), “Making neo-nationalist subject in Japan: The intersection of nationalism, jingoism, and populism in the digital age“ (co-authored with Koichi Iwabuchi, Communication and the Public 7:1, 2022), and “Live Concerts by Voice Actresses/Characters as State of Exception: The Affect and Subjectivity of the Audience as Necessary Conditions” (Mechademia: Second Arc 15:2, 2023).
Joyce C.H. Liu
Professor Emerita, Researcher/Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Her research focuses on geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal coloniality, unequal citizens, epistemic/artistic decolonization, and Chinese political philosophy. Author of seven pivotal texts, Liu’s scholarship includes a comprehensive tetralogy exploring the Taiwan-China complexity: The Topology of the History of Mentalities: How to Face the Contemporary? How to Comprehend the History? (2023), One Divides into Two: Philosophical Archaeology of Modern Chinese Political Thought (2020), The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconfiguration of Ethics (2011), The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity (2004), Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms (2000). Recently, she coordinated interdisciplinary and trans-national joint research projects: Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies (2018–2022), Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization: Asia in Transition in the 21st Century (2023–2027), “Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context” (2019–2022), CHCI-Mellon Foundation, and “Transit Asia Research Network” (TARN) (2023–2027).
Dongyang Li
is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He has trans-disciplinary interests in literature, cultural
Hung-chiung Li
is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also funding Co-Coordinator of the Asia Theories Network, and founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Asia Archives. His research interest includes critical theory, comparative literature, and Taiwan and East Asian cultures and thoughts.
Kwai-Cheung Lo
Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, at Hong Kong Baptist University, specializes in trans-Chinese cinemas and cultural studies. He earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at Stanford University and is the author of Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions, Chinese Face / Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong, and Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building. He also edited Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene: Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change and a Chinese-language anthology entitled Re-Sighting Asia: Deconstruction and Reinvention in the Global Era. He published articles in Camera Obscura, Cultural Politics, Cultural Studies, boundary 2, positions: east asia cultures critique, Postcolonial Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, etc., and is also a creative writer of short stories and poems in the Chinese language.
Elspeth Probyn
is Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of several ground-breaking monographs including Eating the Ocean (Duke UP, 2016). Her current project focuses on the “ocean multiple” and south-south marine entanglements.
Christophe Thouny
is associate professor of visual culture, media, literature, urban studies and critical theory at Ritsumeikan University. He is co-editor of Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima (Lexington Books, 2017) on the cultural politics of 3.11 and authored a monograph on prewar Tokyo urban experiences in literature and ethnography entitled The Urban Planetary and Tokyo Modernity: Dwelling in Passing (Lexington Books, 2023). Thouny also publishes widely on
Yeekwan Wong
is a PhD candidate in the East Asian Studies department at University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation explores issues of racial ambiguity and multi-raciality in Chinese-language literature through psychoanalysis, biopolitics, and ethics. Her other research interests include fashion and design theory, mental illness, and science and literature.