I am an urban environmental humanities scholar, editor and poet. I am Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. My research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of the Environmental Humanities with a particular focus on urban studies, cultural studies, and feminist science and technology studies. I am also editor of the journal Feminist Review. 

My current thinking and writing examine sustainable urban-making, technological imaginaries, multi-modal environmental narratives in the context of climate change and environmental injustice. I have explored some of these topics in my first book Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: stories from Singapore (2024). The book examines the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities. Along with the members of the Feminist Review Collective, I co-edited the special issues series “Feminist Futures” (2023, 2024). The special issues mark the beginning of a new direction for the journal Feminist Review, contributing to an onto-epistemological shift in imagining futures through an intersectional feminist lens.

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 (2017) 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