Aoife Cantrill

I am a Laming Junior Research Fellow at Queen’s College and a Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. After completing my PhD at the University of Oxford in 2022, I have worked as a research fellow at National Taiwan Central Library (2022) and as Lee Kai Hung Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Manchester China Institute (2023-24). I have also worked as a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester (2023-24), where I taught courses on modern Chinese literature, East Asian visual culture the history of the Japanese Empire. My research looks at textual culture in Chinese-speaking territories of the Japanese Empire, with a particular focus on gender, materiality and postcolonial translation. I am currently completing my first monograph, which looks at women’s writing, gendered citizenship and translation politics in Taiwan from 1930 to the present day.