Jannis Jizhou Chen is a literary critic and a fiction writer. His research involves environmental humanities, critical theory (including posthumanism, new materialisms, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Chinese literary and intellectual discourses on things), and twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sinophone and global Chinese literature, film, and culture. His dissertation addresses the recent ecological and thing-object-material turn in narrative fiction produced in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. His current project explores various forms of narratives from Southwest China, broadly construed.
Chen received his B.A. in Chinese Studies from the National University of Singapore. He obtained his M.A. in Regional Studies East Asia and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2017 and 2023 respectively. At CUHK, Chen teaches courses on modern Chinese literature, culture and media, Sinophone literature, and disaster narratives. When not working, Chen often finds himself writing fiction and traveling.
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