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Chia-rong Wu serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, holding this position since June 2019. His academic work centers on Sinophone literature, film, and video games through postcolonial theories, Indigenous studies, diaspora, and ecocriticism frameworks. Dr. Wu earned his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarly contributions include two monographs: Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond (Cambria Press, 2016) and Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan (Cambria Press, 2020). He has co-edited Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader (Springer, 2023) and is preparing The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders (Routledge, forthcoming September 2025). His research examines cultural production across Taiwan and the Sinophone world, with particular focus on how literature, film, and video games engage with historical trauma, identity formation, and cultural politics. Recent projects explore youth narratives in Taiwanese horror video games, Indigenous perspectives on Oceanic Taiwan, and the global South discourse in Sinophone literature, revealing connections between transnational migration, racial dynamics, gender politics, and indigenous awareness. Dr. Wu serves as executive editor and Advisory Board member of Taiwan Lit and the Global Sinosphere (ISSN: 2994-6816), and holds positions on the Board of the American Association for Chinese Studies, the International Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature (Routledge Book Series), and the Cultural History Editorial Advisory Board (Bloomsbury Book Series). Currently supervising PhD students in Sinophone literary and cultural studies, Dr. Wu is developing a new monograph focused on transmedia narratives of youth politics, continuing his exploration of how contemporary media forms engage with political consciousness and historical memory in Taiwan and beyond.

• Sinophone literature
• Postcolonial theories
• Indigenous studies
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Dr. Antonio Viselli serves as Senior Lecturer Above Bar in the Global, Cultural and Language Studies department within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha). His academic work spans Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and European languages with particular expertise in French, English, Italian, and Spanish literary traditions from the 19th to 21st centuries. Viselli's research focuses on interdisciplinary entanglements within poetry and prose, especially the relationship between musical form and text, intermediality, modernist subjectivity, hospitality theory, and iconoclasm. His work extends to Francophone literature and art across Canada and the Pacific, with significant contributions to Translation Studies and indigenous pedagogies. His recent publications demonstrate a consistent engagement with kyriarchal systems, abjection theory, and translingual practices. His scholarly output reveals strong thematic continuity across literary periods and geographical contexts, with particular emphasis on the works of Tristan Corbière, Baudelaire, Joyce, Proust, and contemporary Pacific and Maghrebi writers. The publications show sophisticated integration of postcolonial theory, ecopoetics, and transnational perspectives, often examining power structures through literary form. Outstanding Service Award (LSAP 2020) Viselli actively supervises graduate research, currently mentoring students including Julia Tan (The Stranger's Right to be Inhospitable), Di-kai Chao (Sinophone Ghost Narratives Under the Lyrical Discourse), and Mengjun Yu (The Construction of a Modern Myth in Haizi's Sun). His current research is supported by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment grant 'In the Lay-reader's Eyes - Reassurance of Translation Quality' (2022-2023), which investigates community translation quality assessment and contributes to New Zealand's interpreter certification system development.

• Comparative Literature
• Cultural Studies
• Translation Studies
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