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Charlie Yi Zhang is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. His research focuses on neoliberal globalization’s cultural and material impacts through gender, sexuality, race, and class in the Asia-Pacific region. His monograph *Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China* (Duke UP, 2022) won the 2023 Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize. Zhang’s work integrates affect theory, ethnography, and critical political economy to analyze how love functions as a biopolitical apparatus in China’s marketization and transnational capital integration.
Education:
- Ph.D., Gender Studies, Arizona State University (2013)
- M.A., Communication Studies, Fudan University (2007)
- B.A., English, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2002)
Research interests include queer of color analysis, transnational sexualities, critical animal studies, and the intersections of gender with media/cultural studies. His teaching covers feminist theory, affect studies, and social movement analysis. Zhang is affiliated with the University of Kentucky’s Gender and Women’s Studies department, Social Theory, and Global Asias programs.
His recent work critiques biometric citizenship in pandemic contexts, examines Thai BL (boys’ love) media’s diasporic turn, and explores queering digital platforms for community-building. He co-edits a forthcoming special issue on *Feminist and Queer Critiques of Multiple Empires* in the *International Feminist Journal of Politics*.
Awards:
- 2023 Southeast Conference AAS Book Prize
- 2022 Southeast Conference AAS Paper Prize
- 2017 *Literature and Culture Studies* 'Excellent Paper of the Year'
