Lynda Ng

Dr. Lynda Ng is an academic at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the China Studies Centre. Her research spans transnational studies, focusing on intersections between Australian Aboriginal literature, Chinese diasporic literature, and postcolonial literatures, with particular attention to economic themes like neoliberalism.

• PhD from University of New South Wales (UNSW)
• Specializes in 20th-21st century novels, postcolonial theory, and world literature frameworks
• Book Review Editor for Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Her 2018 Indigenous Transnationalism monograph explores Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria through ecological and global lenses. Recent research connects Coetzee’s fiction with neoliberal critiques and Chinatown narratives with transnational economics.

• 2019 Margaret Church Prize for best essay in Modern Fiction Studies
• 2012-14 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford

Current projects analyze climate justice in Aboriginal literature and neoliberalism’s literary representations, with leadership roles in transnational literary networks.