Darwin Han-Lin Tsen

Darwin’s fields of study include modern and contemporary Chinese and Japanese literature and culture, critical theory and literary theory, film, Asian and Eastern European postsocialism, as well as Asian American literature. His current book project, Collectivity after Socialism in Fictions of the Transpacific: Institutionalizing Aesthetics 1960-2010examines how collectivity is imagined in the novels, films, television, documentaries, and comics of China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan and the U.S., five disparate geographical origins tied together by the recession of Chinese socialism and the rise of neoliberal globalization. Darwin’s most recent book chapter “Transition as Dysrhythmia: Luo Yijun, Generational Logic, and Taiwanese Post-postmodernism”, is forthcoming in the collection Remembering Transitions, edited by Ksenia Robbe and slated for publication by De Gruyter. A collaborative piece with Katherine Anne Keenan titled “Reading While Walking: A Reflection on Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching” appeared in Teaching Anthropology in 2020.