Speculative Worlds: A Conversation with R.F. Kuang

Join us at Blackman Auditorium on October 29 at 6pm!About this Event

Northeastern University's Global Asian Studies Program is proud to present a reading and conversation with the critically acclaimed author R.F. Kuang, one of the most influential voices in contemporary speculative fiction. Kuang is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, Katabasis, and, most recently, Taipei Story.

Born in Guangzhou, China and raised in the United States, Kuang brings a deeply transpacific perspective to her work, one shaped by her academic training and scholarly commitments. She studied history at Georgetown University and, as a Marshall Scholar, earned graduate degrees in Chinese Studies from the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. She is currently pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, where her research focuses on Sinophone and Asian American literature.

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