Christine Xiong

Christine Xiong (she/hers/她) is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Stanford University. Her dissertation, Waterways: Oceanic Emplotments of Asian American Literature, traces the oceanic imaginaries of contemporary Asian diasporic fiction. Additional areas of interest include transpacific studies; narrative theory; queer of colour critique; and science fiction studies. Her research is generously supported by the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Asian American Research Center at Stanford (AARCS), the Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity (DDRO), and more. She calls home Changsha, Hunan and the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, colonially known as Vancouver. 

At Stanford, Christine co-directs the Transpacific Studies Working Group and co-curates the Stanford Humanities Center Arcade Colloquy, Queer Transpacifics. Previously, she served as the Graduate co-chair of the Stanford Humanities Center’s Research Workshop, Postcolonial Spatialities; co-director of Humanities in Color;  co-chair of the English Graduate Student Council (EGSC); GradLife coordinator for the Asian American Activities Center (A3C); research assistant for Stanford Global Studies'  Oceanic Imaginaries project (recipient of the Changing Human Experience Seed Grant); and on the graduate student council for the Stanford Humanities Center’s Blokker Research Workshop, Arts + Justice.

As a teacher, Christine is committed to pedagogy as learning partnership and to the classroom as a reciprocal, joyful, and intellectually explorative space for community. Currently, she serves as graduate mentor for English Honours thesis writers, and has previously served as graduate mentor for the Chappell-Lougee Scholarship. Previously, she taught a Writing Intensive Seminar in English (WISE) seminar titled “Queer(ing) Asian American Literature” as instructor of record. 

Questions about research, mentorship, graduate school, and community involvement are always welcome.

Publications:

Xiong, Christine. “Transcorporeal Temporalities at the Three Gorges Dam.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. Sept 16 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae055

Xiong, Christine. “Rethinking the Cyborg in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide.” Foundation: An International Review of Science Fiction, vol. 139, no. 50.2, Special Issue: Decolonizing Science Fiction, 2021, pp. 75-89.