Christine Xiong
Christine Xiong (she/hers/她) is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in English at Stanford University. Her dissertation examines the oceanic imaginaries of contemporary Asian and Asian diasporic fiction, and her research is generously supported by the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, the Asian American Research Center at Stanford (AARCS), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She hails from Changsha, Hunan, China and the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, colonially known as Vancouver.
At Stanford, Christine serves as the Graduate Co-Chair of the Stanford Humanities Center’s Research Workshop, Postcolonial Spatialities; co-director of the DIF project Humanities in Color; co-curator of the Stanford Humanities Center Arcade Colloquy, Queer Transpacifics; and co-organizer for the SPICE project Transpacific Studies Working Group. Previously, Christine served as co-chair of the English Graduate Student Council (EGSC), the GradLife coordinator for the Asian American Activities Center (A3C), RA for Stanford Global Studies’ Oceanic Imaginaries project (2023 Humanities Seed Grant recipient), 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, Christine serves as graduate mentor for English Honours thesis writers, graduate mentor for Chappell-Lougee scholars, and has taught a Writing Intensive Seminar in English (WISE) course titled “Queer(ing) Asian American Literature” as instructor of record in Fall 2023. 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.