Dr. Li, dongyang

Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

D3-P-04E4

Profile

Dongyang Li received his PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong, and a research associate on the project “Extracting the Ocean” (extractingtheocean.org) at the University of Sydney. Drawing on his transdisciplinary interests in cultural and literary studies, feminist media studies, and the environmental humanities, Li’s current research explores China’s affective oceanscapes, with a particular focus on their aqua/geopolitical formations and socio-cultural dimensions.

Research and teaching Interests

Inter-Asian Cultural Studies
Critical Ocean Studies
Environmental Humanities
Affect Theory
Feminist Media Studies
Literature and Popular Culture

sELECTED pUBLICATION

Book Chapters

Li, Dongyang., and E. Probyn. 2025. “Enclosing and Opening: China’s Oceanic Structures of Feeling.” In Entangled Waterscapes in Asia, African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities Volume 1. Brill.
Li, Dongyang. 2025 (In Press). “Toward Virtual-Ordinary Nexus in Futuristic Chinese Media: A digital and affect-inflected ethnography of ASOUL VTubers’ livestreams.” In Future of Media in Asia. Springer.
Li, Dongyang. 2026 (In Press). “The Swarm: ocean extractivism, energy unconsciousness, and more-than-human imaginaries.” In Oceans, Seas and Shorelines in Film, forthcoming in 2026. Routledge.
Li, Dongyang. 2026 (In Press). “On (not) becoming the ‘fairy goddess’: gendered cruel optimism and the affective archive of Chinese (micro-)celebrity Li Ziqi.” In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity, forthcoming in 2026. Routledge.
Li, Dongyang. 2026 (In Press). “Allegory of Tidalectics: Decolonializing southern Chinese aquascapes via Sino-Indian Ocean history-telling.” Towards Global Ways of Knowing: Exploring Epistemologies of the Indian Ocean Worlds. Routledge.

Journal articles

Li, Dongyang., and J. Guo. 2024. “Online Feminist Stand-up Comedy: An Emerging Affective-Discursive Intervention on Gender in China.” Continuum (Mount Lawley, W.A.) 2024, 1–13.
Li, Dongyang., D. Leung, and E. Probyn. 2025. “Wet dreams: eco-subjectivity, mineral washing, and the cultural politics of electric mobility.” Continuum: Online publication.
Li, Dongyang. (In press). “The Chinese Oceanic of (M)Anthropocene: Reclamation, blue territory, and speculative extraction.” NORMA, forthcoming in 2025.
Guo, Jia., and D. Li. (Invited article for special issue, under peer review). “Happiness for Men: The reversal of gender roles in Chinese romance comedy B for Busy.” Comedy Studies, forthcoming in 2025.
Li, Dongyang, and S. Kong. (Invited article for special issue, extended proposal accepted). “Negotiating Tourist Notice with Care: The Affective (Re-)Configuration of the Antarctic Landscapes in Contemporary Chinese Tourism.” Tourism Geographies, forthcoming in 2026.
Li, Dongyang, and J. Guo. (Invited article for special issue, proposal accepted). “Oceanic Struggles and Bio-Performance: Exploring More-Than-Human Affect and Queer Ecology in Chinese Artist Wan Yun-feng’s Protection of the Ocean.” Critical Arts, forthcoming in 2026.