COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Qing Ji (he/they), known as Ben among friends, is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary Studies, with a home department in Asian Languages and Cultures and a Mellon Fellowship in the Science Studies cluster. His research interests include queer-feminist science and technology studies, medical and environmental humanities, critical disability studies, toxicity, and non-Western genealogies of cybernetics, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific area. Broadly, he is interested in how the body, medicine, technoscience, and more-than-human beings are mediated across literary, visual, and performing arts in a transnational context, critically attuned to the political economy, historical conditions, and material formations that underpin these processes.

Trained previously in International Relations and Critical Gender Studies through a transdisciplinary lens, Ben is developing a transnational comparative approach with queer-feminist sensibilities in his research. Outside of academia, he previously worked as a fundraising officer at a nonprofit dedicated to advancing poetry education in rural China.