Jamie Wang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong, and a member of International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IRCCS). Her research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of the Environmental Humanities with a particular focus on cultural studies, urban geography, feminist science studies. Jamie’s current thinking and writing examines sustainable urban-making, technological imaginaries, multi-modal environmental narratives in the context of intense urbanisation, climate change and environmental injustice. She has explored some of these issues in her book Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: stories from Singapore (forthcoming 2024, MIT Press, Urban and Industrial Environments series). Her work is published in Humanities, Cultural Studies Review, Niche: Network in Canadian History & Environment among other outlets. 

Jamie is also a writer, poet and editor. Her creative work has appeared in Otherwise, Feminist Review, Voice and Verse among other venues. She is an editor at the journal Feminist Review. Jamie has a M.A. in writing and literature (Deakin University) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Humanities and Cultural Studies (University of Sydney). For more information, please visit jamiewang.org.

Environmental Humanities

Cultural and Urban Imaginaries                     

Multi-modal storytelling 

More-than-human Studies     

Feminist science and technology studies   

Climate Change and Agri-food

Creative Writing and eco-poetics

— Editor/Feminist Review Collective, Feminist Review 

— Visiting Fellow, The Smart Sustainable Cities Research Network and the Greenhouse Centre of Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger, Norway (May 2023)

— World-Making Fellow, Joint Centre for Advanced Studies: “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective”, University of Heidelberg and Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, LMU (July 2023).

— Writing Fellowship, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney (2022)

— Research Affiliate, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, the University of Sydney (2021 - 2022)

— Visiting Researcher, Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC), The City University of Hong Kong (2021- 2022)

— Member, Sydney Environment Institute (SEI) 

— Member, Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia– New Zealand (ASLEZ-ANZ) 

— Member, Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) 

— Member, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) 

— Member, China Studies Centre, the University of Sydney.