Ian Liujia Tian

PhD Candidate
Email: liujia.tian@mail.utoronto.ca
Areas of Interest
- Transnational Political Economy
- Queer Asian Studies
- Queer Marxisms
- Social Reproduction Feminisms
- Asian Canadian and American Studies
- Sinophone Feminist STS
- Decolonial Movements in East and Southeast Asia.
Biography
Program: PhD 2019
Education
MA, University of Toronto
BA, Shandong University, China
Dissertation
Title: Queering Social Reproduction: Pleasure and Labour in Urban Southern China
Supervisor: Jamie Magnusson (supervisor), Shana Ye, and Jesook Song (committee member)
Presentations
Organizer, Panel Title: Unsettling Community: Exploring Queer Sociality from the Margins of Contemporary Chinese and Queer Studies, Association of Asian Studies, Seattle, Mar. 2024
“Vulgarity Production.” Paper presented at American Anthropology Association Annual Conference in Toronto, Nov. 2023
“Queer Techno-Orientalism as Methods.” Paper presented at Sexuality Studies Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Toronto, May. 2023
“Infrastructure and/as Mediation: China 2098’s Affective Politics.” Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Boston, Mar. 2023
“The Affective Commons: Social Reproduction and Mediated Life.” Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Hawai’i, Mar. 2022
“Feminist Hope: Pedagogies from Two Acts.” Paper presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Online, Oct. 2021
“The Affective Commons.” Paper presented at the Inter-Asian Cultural Studies in NUS, Singapore, July. 2021
“Diasporic Blaming, or the (Im)possibility of Speaking.” Paper presented at the Inter-Asian Cultural Studies Conference in Silliman University, the Philippines, Aug. 2019
“Homo/Transphobia and Global Buyers in an Era of Financialized Primitive Accumulation.” Paper presented at the 8th International Critical Geography Conference in Athens, Greece, April. 2019
“Graduated In/visibility.” Paper presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, Nov. 2019
“Left Resistance in China.” Paper presented at the 15th Historical Materialism Annual Conference in London, Nov. 2018
Selected Works
Forthcoming “Infrastructure and/as Mediation: China 2098’s Affective Politics.” In Techno-Orientalism Vol II, edited by David Roh, Greta Niu, Betsy Huang and Christopher Fan. Rutgers University Press.
2023 ‘‘Being Too Asian: Migrant Student Time and Resistance within the Canadian University.’’ TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 47: 119-131, With Vedanth Govi (York U) and Rui Liu (NYU). https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2023-0019
2023 ‘‘Divine Queer Sorrow, or Beyond Mythical Reparation.’’ TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 46: 260-279. https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0007
2022 ‘‘Critical Socialist Feminism in China: xingbie (gender), the State and Community-based Socialism.’’ Rethinking Marxism 34, no.4: 519-537. https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2022.2144068
2021 ‘‘On Rescuable and Expendable Life: bioavailability, surplus time, and the queer politics of reproduction.’’ Journal of Canadian Studies 54, no.2-3: 483-507. https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs-2020-0015
2019 ‘‘Graduated In/visibility: reflections on Ku’er activism in (post)socialist China.’’ QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 6, no.3: 56-75. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.6.3.0056
Honours and Awards
Roxana Ng Memorial Scholarship in Equity
School of Graduate Studies Research Travel Grant