Shana Ye is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research areas include transnational feminism, queer studies, post/socialist studies, queer death studies, Sinophone science and technology studies, and the history of artificial intelligence and virtual reality in China. As well as the monograph Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child (University of Michigan Press, 2024), her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Transgender Studies Quarterly, Feminist Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, and Feminist Media Studies. She is currently working on the racialisation of Chineseness in relation to technology and the materiality of memory and virtual reality.
Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic art, and science fiction, Shana Ye’s Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child (University of Michigan Press, 2024) unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United […]
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