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Christopher Tzechung Fan

Assistant Professor, English
School of Humanities

Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
School of Humanities

Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
School of Humanities

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2016, English

Email: chris.fan@uci.edu

University of California, Irvine
306 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 2650
Irvine, CA 92697

Research Interests

Asian/American cultural production, 20/21 American and Anglophone literature, global Asias, race, science/speculative fiction

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Professional Website

Appointments

UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Riverside Dept. of English, 2016-2017

Publications

"Science Fictionality and Post-'65 Asian American Literature," American Literary History, Forthcoming, 2021.

"Andrew Yang and Post-'65 Asian America," American Literary History: Online Forum, March 3, 2020.

"Animacy at the End of History in Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea," American Quarterly 69.3 (Sept, 2017).

"Battle Hymn of the Afropolitan: Sino-African Futures in Ghana Must Go and Americanah," Journal of Asian American Studies (February, 2017).

"Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F. McHugh's China Mountain Zhang," Journal of Transnational American Studies 6.1 (2015).

"Melancholy Transcendence: Ted Chiang and Asian American Postracial Form," Post45: Peer Reviewed, November 6, 2014.

"WordSeer: A Knowledge Synthesis Environment for Textual Data," with Aditi Muralidharan and Marti A. Hearst, ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (2013).

Other Experience

Co-Founder, Senior Editor
Hyphen Magazine 2002—Now

Link to this profile

http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6335

Last updated

10/30/2020