Emily Martin (B.A. English, Hunter College; M.A. Media Studies, The New School)
Research interests: Affect theory, human, nonhuman and machine relations; speculative posthumanism; gothic imagination; fin de siècle literature and poetry; Japanese aesthetics; the Kyoto School; Christian and Eastern mysticism and religion; climate fiction and apocalyptic literature; media theory; impersonal theories of desire and eroticism
Inês Monteiro (B.A. History, University of Porto, Portugal; M.A. Modern Culture, Literature, and Languages, University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Research interests: Women writers and exile, Russian and Eastern European émigré literature, self-writing, history and memory, gender and sexuality, 19th- and 20th-century Francophone and Lusophone literatures
Ziyin Qian (B.A. Comparative Literature, Hampshire college; M.A. Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College)
Research interests: Biopolitics, critical theory, language philosophy, philosophy of literature, comparative modernism, bureaucracy studies, everydayness, political domination in global contexts
Chen Xing (B.A. English, Sun Yat-sen University; M.A. Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Hong Kong)
Research interests: Women’s writings, memory and trauma studies, modern and contemporary Sinophone literature, affect theory, non-human studies, environmental humanities