Kyle Shernuk is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literatures, film, and cultures. His research takes a particular interest in disempowered and minoritized populations, with recent publications focusing on issues of ethnicity, indigeneity, queerness, and language in global Chinese communities. Relevant scholarly work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (2021) and International Journal of Taiwan Studies (2021), and edited volumes, such as Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge, 2020) and A New Literary History of Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2017). His current book project focusing on issues of ethnicity and Indigeneity in Sinographic literatures from China and Taiwan and investigates how different ethnic identities are constructed and relate to ideas about what it means “to be Chinese” at the turn of the twenty-first century. He is also the editor of the Cambria Sinophone Translation Series and an active Chinese-English translator.