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Qian Liu is an Assistant Professor of Italian in the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on transnational networks between Italy and the Global South, with expertise in 20th/21st century Italian literature, critical theory, migration studies, Black Italy, urban environmental humanities, and Mediterranean studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan (2024) and has been a Richard & Lillian Ives Dissertation Fellow (2023-2024) and Visiting Fellow at the Giorgio Cini Foundation (2022).
Current research projects include Urban Exergue: Black Spectrality and the Limits of Landscape (exploring Afro-Italian aesthetic innovations) and Foundations of Displacement: Aquatic Media and the Ethics of Witnessing (examining Mediterranean seawater as a critical medium for refugee crisis discourse). His scholarship integrates continental philosophy, Black critical theory, and visual studies. He has published in Forum Italicum, Annali d’Italianistica, and Ecozon@, and translates extensively between English, Italian, and East Asian languages.
Recent courses include graduate seminars on care theory and post-unification Italy, as well as undergraduate courses on modern migrations and contemporary Italian society. His work bridges Italian studies with Francophone, Global Sinophone, and American Ethnic cultural traditions.
