I am an Environmental Humanities researcher, writer and poet. I am Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. I am also editor of the journal Feminist Review.
My research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of the Environmental Humanities with a particular focus on cultural studies, urban geography, and feminist science studies. My current thinking and writing examines sustainable urban-making, technological imaginaries, multi-modal environmental narratives in the context of intense urbanisation, climate change and environmental injustice. I have explored some of these topics in my book Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: stories from Singapore (MIT Press, 2024, Urban and Industrial Environments series).
In 2023, I held two visiting fellowships: with the Smart Sustainable Cities Research Network and the Greenhouse Centre of Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, Norway; and with the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective”, University of Heidelberg and Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.
Across my research and creative works, I am interested in multidisciplinary collaborative and sustainable story-making towards the opening of other kinds of possible futures. I have a M.A. in Writing and Literature from Deakin University and a Ph.D. in Environmental Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney (2021). I also have a Bachelor and a Master of Business and worked in finance and IT delivery for a decade.
Email: yjwang@eduhk.hk