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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 Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) there. Alvin’s research spans across the fields of queer theory, Sinophone studies, Hong Kong literature and cinema, transnational feminism, and the environmental humanities. His book Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone is forthcoming from Duke University Press in Spring 2025. Unruly Comparison theorizes Hong Kong as a queer region of racial, gender, and sexual incommensurability, which forms a perverse relationality to the world through asymmetrical comparisons. This queer unruly methodology rethinks the stakes of comparison. He has published in journals such as Diacritics, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, Culture, Theory, and Critique, Concentric, Cultural Dynamics, Continuum, JCMS, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and Interventions and in edited volumes such as Transgender China, Queer Sinophone Cultures, Fredric Jameson and Film Theory, Sinophone Utopias, Queer TV China, and Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines. He also coedited the volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge, 2020). Alvin is the co-editor of the HKU Press book series, Entanglements: Rethinking Comparison in the Long Contemporary.
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: Wen-chi Li
Wen-chi Li holds a post as the Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow at the University of Oxford, after completing Susan Manning Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and receiving his PhD in Sinology from the University of Zurich. He has co-edited the Chinese book Under the Same Roof: A Poetry Anthology for LGBTQ (Dark Eyes, 2019) and the volume of Taiwanese Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2022). As a translator, he co-translated Decapitated Poetry by Ko-hua Chen (Seagull Books, 2023). He also received first prize in the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition for translating Yang Mu’s poetry. He is a co-founder of the “World Literature from Taiwan” series with Balestier Press.
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.
Former Board Members
Lily Wong
Lily Wong held the post of Communications Director at the SSS from 2019 to 2024. She is an Associate Professor in the departments of Literature and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies at American University, and an Associate Director at AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center (2022-2025). Her research focuses on the politics of affective labor, racial capitalism, minor-transnational coalitional movements, as well as media formations of transpacific Chinese, Sinophone, and Asian American communities. She is one of the founding board members of the Society of Sinophone Studies (2019-2024), serves on the Advisory Board of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and supports AAPI Women Lead’s Intergenerational Participatory Action Research as an advisor. Her work can be found in journals including American Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Asian Cinema, Asian American Literary Review, among others. She has published book chapters in World Cinema and the Visual Arts (2012), Queer Sinophone Cultures (2013), Divided Lenses: War and Film Memory in Asia (2016), Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (2020), and Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines: A Reader (2024). She is the author of the book "Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness" (2018), Co-editor (with Eric Tang) of "Dimensions of Violence, Resistance, and Becoming: Asian Americans and the 'Opening' of the COVID-era" special issue in Journal of Asian American Studies (2022), and Co-editor (with Christopher B. Patterson, and Chien-ting Lin) of the collection Transpacific, Undisciplined (2024).