Biography
Rowan Kang Li (they/them) is a PHD candidate working under the supervision of Dr. Petra Fachinger. Their dissertation investigates racial melancholia, grief, and haunting in the context of contemporary Chinese Canadian diasporic fiction. Rowan does additional work in Caribbean studies, ecocriticism, and queer theory, as well as publishing poetry and engaging in research creation practices. Their most recent article, “Little Girl/Hummingbird/Homme-Plante: Women and Poetics in Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism and the Essays of Suzanne Césaire,” appeared in July with Feminist Modernist Studies.