HU Ying
My research focuses on queer life in Asian contexts, with particular attention to how Asian thought, aesthetics, and cultures can enter into dialogues with Western queer scholarship. While I explored queer readings of Western literature during my BA and Msc studies, my PhD research takes an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to intervene in the knowledge production of queer theory per se. Reading Chinese philosophy along contemporary Asian queer literature, cinema, and cultural phenomena, I aim to question the link between queer theory and Western philosophical/political traditions.
Education Background
- PhD Candidate in Literary Studies, National University of Singapore (2021-present)
- Msc in English Literature: Literature and Modernity, University of Edinburgh (2019-2020)
- BA in English, Beijing Language and Culture University (2015-2019)
| Research Interests/ Primary Fields |
Queer theory; contemporary Asian literature and cinema; cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; Chinese philosophy; literary theory |
| Dissertation Topic/ Title | Reshaping an Inescapable Present: Queer Temporalities in J. G. Ballard’s Crash, Concrete Island and High-Rise (Master’s) |
| Dissertation Advisor | Associate Professor Irving Goh, Assistant Professor Yanbing Er |
| Recent Presentations | Panelist of “Alternative Cosmologies of Time,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2024, Montreal.
Presenter at Coalition of English Departments in Asia Annual Conference 2023, Hong Kong. Panelist of “Queer Visibility: Rethinking Queer Representations in China and Beyond,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference 2023, Ahmadabad (remote). |
| Modules Taught | I have worked as a teaching assistant for the following modules at NUS:
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