Tingxuan Liu
Thesis Working Title
East and Southeast Asian Anglophone Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism
(China Scholarship Council鈥揥arwick Joint Doctoral Scholarship)
Research Discipline
Postcolonial and world literary studies, drawing on political economy and modern Asian history
Supervisor
Ross Forman
Fellowships and Grants
One of ten UK-wide recipients of the British Academy and British Comparative Literature Association doctoral studentship (2025)
The Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS, Germany, 2025)
The Centre for Arts Doctoral Excellence at the Monash Prato Publishing Workshop (2025)
Warwick Humanities Research Fund (2024-2025)
Full scholarship for the Harvard World Literature Colloquium & Summer School (2024)
Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, Faculty of English (2021-2022)
Selected Conference Papers
1. 鈥淩ethinking the Family Saga: Min Jin Lee鈥檚 Pachinko and Neoliberal Diasporic Narration鈥� Postcolonial Narrations Conference, University of Oxford | September 2025
2. 鈥淯rban Nostalgia and Uneven Modernity in Tash Aw鈥檚 Five Star Billionaire鈥� ICLA 2025, International Comparative Literature Association, Seoul, Korea | August 2025
3. 鈥淧astiche or Late Capitalist Realism? The Politics of Narrative Form in Kevin Kwan鈥檚 Crazy Rich Asians鈥� ACLALS 2025, 20th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya | July 2025
4. 鈥淢apping Asian Capitalism under Neoliberalism鈥� GAPS 2025, Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany | May 2025
5. 鈥淔rom Self-Making to Subject-Making: Tash Aw鈥檚 Allegorizing Neoliberalism in Five Star Billionaire鈥� Warwick鈥揝orbonne鈥揕isbon Critical Theory Network Seminar: Burning Cities, Warwick Venice Centre | May 2025
6. 鈥淎 Neoliberal Dessert? Kevin Kwan鈥檚 Crazy Rich Asians and Entertained Asian Diaspora Writing鈥� 14th Harvard World Literature Colloquium & Summer School, University of Nicosia, Cyprus | July鈥揂ugust 2024
Invited Talk
鈥淥n Elite Cosmopolitanism鈥� Kanagawa University, Japan (online) | July 2023
Teaching
En123 Modern World Literatures