Julia Chan

Bio

Julia Chan holds a PhD from Yale University and is currently Visiting Scholar at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where she teaches and researches on transnational modernisms, the global Anglophone, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Her book project, New Worlds for Old: Modernism, Utopia, and the Left, explores a politicized modernist literature that emerged as an aesthetic response to the circulation of “actually existing socialisms” in Soviet Russia, Europe, and East Asia.

Contributions

Early Soviet Science Fiction and the Unevenness of Modernism: An Aerial View

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In envisioning alternative futures—utopian, dystopian, cataclysmic—we historicize the present. Marxist critics like Fredric Jameson read science fiction as the new Lukácsian historical novel. [1] Others, turning to a further distant future, elaborate on the new perceptions of time and space offered in SF as visions that push toward cosmic and nonhuman scales. [2] As such, SF shares with the modernism of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce a similar interest in defamiliarization, in the limits or...

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