I am an urban environmental humanities scholar, editor 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 urban studies, cultural studies, and feminist science and technology studies.

My current thinking and writing examines 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