Christopher T. Fan on Science Fictionality and Post-65 Asian American Literature

<p><span style="color: #000000;">Christopher T. Fan is an Assistant Professor at UC Irvine in the departments of <a style= "color: #000000;" href= "http://humanities.uci.edu/english/">English,</a> <a style= "color: #000000;" href="https://www.humanities.uci.edu/aas/">Asian American Studies</a>, and <a style="color: #000000;" href= "https://www.humanities.uci.edu/eastasian/">East Asian Studies</a>, and a senior editor at <em><a style="color: #000000;" title= "Hyphen Magazine" href="http://hyphenmagazine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hyphen</a></em> magazine, which he also co-founded. His research and writing focus on 20/21st c. Anglophone and Asian/American cultural production, speculative fiction, and racial form. He received his PhD in English literature from UC Berkeley in 2016, and was formerly a UC Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the English department at UC Riverside.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">In addition to <em>Hyphen</em>, his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in </span><em>American Literary History, American Quarterly, the Journal of Asian American Studies</em>, the <em>Journal of Transnational American Studies, Post45, Public Books, The New Inquiry</em>, and <em>American Literary History: Forum.</em></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">He is currently working on a book, tentatively titled <em>Principles of Selection: Asian American Fiction after 1965</em>, about post-1965 Asian/American fiction (especially science fiction) as an articulation of immigration policy and US-Asia political economy.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">We discuss two of his articles:</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">"<a style="color: #000000;" href= "https://academic.oup.com/alh/article/33/1/75/6032905" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Sc</a><a href= "https://academic.oup.com/alh/article/33/1/75/6032905" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "color: #000000;">i</span>e</a><a href= "https://academic.oup.com/alh/article/33/1/75/6032905" target= "_blan