Tingxuan Liu
Thesis Working Title
A Metahistorical Reading of Anglophone Asian Literature and the Cultural Logic of Neoliberalism
Supervisor
Ross Forman
Conference Presentations, Invited Talks, and Workshops
"Rethinking the Family Saga: Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Neoliberal Diasporic Narration", the 2025 Postcolonial Narrations conference, University of Oxford, September 2025.
Awarded studentship, British Academy & BCLA Comparative Literature and Decoloniality conference, St John's College, University of Oxford, September 2025.
"Urban Nostalgia and Uneven Modernity in Tash Aw's Five Star Billionaire", ICLA 2025, International Comparative Literature Association, Seoul, August 2025.
"Pastiche or Late Capitalist Realism? The Politics of Narrative Form in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians and Its Canonical Shadows", ACLALS 2025, The 20th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya, July 2025.
2025 Monash Graduate Research Writing and Publishing Workshop in Monash Prato, June 2025.
"Mapping Asian Capitalism under Neoliberalism", GAPS conference 2025, Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany, May 2025.
"From Self-Making to Subject-Making: Tash Aw’s Deconstructing Diaspora and Allegorizing Neoliberalism in Five Star Billionaire", Warwick-Sorbonne-Lisbon Critical Theory Network Seminar: Burning Cities, Venice, May 2025."A Neoliberal Dessert? Kevin Kwan’s
Crazy Rich Asians and Entertained Asian Diaspora Writing", The 14th Harvard World Literature Colloquium&Summer School, Nicosia, July 2024.
"On Elite Cosmopolitanism", Kanagawa University, Japan, July 2023.
Teaching
En123 Modern World Literatures
Fellowships
Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, 2021-2022.
Grants
Warwick Humanities Research Fund
Research Interests
Asian Diasporic Literature, Asian Anglophone Literature, Postcolonial Literature and World Literatures