Tingxuan Liu
Thesis Working Title
East and Southeast Asian Anglophone Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism
(CSC-Warwick joint scholarship)
Research Discipline
Postcolonial and world literary studies, drawing on political economy and modern Asian history
Supervisor
Ross Forman
Fellowships and Grants
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. “Rethinking the Family Saga: Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and Neoliberal Diasporic Narration” Postcolonial Narrations Conference, University of Oxford | September 2025
2. “Urban Nostalgia and Uneven Modernity in Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire” ICLA 2025, International Comparative Literature Association, Seoul, Korea | August 2025
3. “Pastiche or Late Capitalist Realism? The Politics of Narrative Form in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians” ACLALS 2025, 20th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya | July 2025
4. “Mapping Asian Capitalism under Neoliberalism” GAPS 2025, Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany | May 2025
5. “From Self-Making to Subject-Making: Tash Aw’s Allegorizing Neoliberalism in Five Star Billionaire” Warwick–Sorbonne–Lisbon Critical Theory Network Seminar: Burning Cities, Warwick Venice Centre | May 2025
6. “A Neoliberal Dessert? Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians and Entertained Asian Diaspora Writing” 14th Harvard World Literature Colloquium & Summer School, University of Nicosia, Cyprus | July–August 2024
Invited Talk
“On Elite Cosmopolitanism” Kanagawa University, Japan (online) | July 2023
Teaching
En123 Modern World Literatures