Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture : Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene

This collection opens the geospatiality of “Asia” into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this “worlding” process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research interests include transpacific agricultural environmentalism, Asian American environmental literature, and medical-environmental humanities. She is author of numerous scholarly and creative publications on American organic farming literature and culture and gardens with her colleagues in her office rooftop farm.   

Soyoung Kim is Professor of Cinema Studies at Korea National University of Arts, South Korea, and Director of Trans: Asia Screen Culture Institute. She is author of Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster, Trans-Cinema (forthcoming) and has published numerous books in Korean on Postcolonial modernity, gender, and cinema. As a filmmaker, she directed ‘Exile Trilogy’ set in Central Asia, Russia, and Korea and ‘Women's History Trilogy’. She taught at UC Berkeley andDuke University, USA, as a visiting professor.

Rob Wilson received a doctorate in English from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, where he was founding editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. He is author of a dual-language poetry book When the Nikita Moon Rose (2021) and Beat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers, Dharma Bums, and Cultural-Political Activists (2010). He teaches literature, cultural studies, and creative writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA.