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Kyle Shernuk is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literatures, film, and cultures. His research takes a particular interest in disempowered and minoritized populations, with recent publications focusing on issues of ethnicity, indigeneity, queerness, and language in global Chinese communities. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (2021) and International Journal of Taiwan Studies (2021), and edited volumes, such as Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge, 2020) and A New Literary History of Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2017). He is currently working on a book project focusing on issues of ethnicity in Sinographic literatures from China and Taiwan and that investigates how different ethnic identities are constructed and relate to ideas about what it means “to be Chinese” at the turn of the twenty-first century.Dr. Shernuk’s additional areas of research interest include: an on-going project on Global Asias (organized by the Global Asias Initiative at the Pennsylvania State University); China and the world; the role of Chinese and East Asian literatures in comparative and world literary perspective; contemporary (Sino-)Tibetan literary traditions; transpacific connections, particularly among indigenous populations; and Taiwan studies.An active Chinese-English translator, Dr. Shernuk’s translations have appeared in A New Literary History of Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2017) and in collaborations with the National Museum of Taiwan Literature for A Taiwanese Literature Reader (Cambria, 2020) and A Queer Taiwanese Fiction Reader (Cambria, 2021). His current project, a translation of Taiwan aboriginal writer Syaman Rapongan’s novel, The Eyes in the Sky, is under contract with Columbia University Press.He was previously Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Chinese Studies at Queen Mary University of London and a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. degree in East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Comparative Literature from Harvard University in May 2020.

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