Carissa Ma

Carissa Ma

Carissa Ma is an Assistant Professor of Anglophone Literature. She received her PhD in English from The Ohio State University and holds an MSt in English (1900-present) from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the politics of representation, affect, and emotion in speculative fiction, particularly Asian Futurisms. Her work aims to uncover new avenues of transformation by engaging with the past and envisioning alternative futures. Her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Science Fiction Studies, Printing Culture, Cultural Studies, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, and Oxford Research in English.

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