Research

Publications

1. “Ecology, [Post]humanism, and Liu Cixin’s The Three Body Problem.”

   Hosek, Melissa A.. Eco- Writing in an Age of (Un)Natural Crisis, special issue of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, vol. 21, no. 1, 2024, pp. 179-195, 2026.

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2. “Projecting Eco-Futures: Cinematic Visions of Utopian Science and Ecology from the Mao Era to the Deng Era.”

   Hosek, Melissa A.. Chinese Science Fiction: Concepts, Forms, and Histories, edited by Mingwei Song, Hua Li, and Nathaniel Isaacson, Palgrave McMillan , 2024, pp. 145- 165.

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3. “Academia is a Dice Roll”

   Backman, A., Dombrowski, Q., Grimber, S., and Hosek, Melissa A.. “Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities”, special issue of Debates in Digital Humanities , 2024.

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4. “A Beautiful Future? Nature, Aesthetics, and Inequality in Chinese Science Fiction.”

   Hosek, Melissa A.. Comparative Literature in China 《中国比较文学》, no. 3, 2022, pp. 15-33.

Book Reviews

• “Hosek on Song, Mingwei, Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction.”

  H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews., March 2024.

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• Review of Robin Visser's Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan.

  Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (Forthcoming), March 2024.

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Guest Lectures

• "Beautiful Cities: Aesthetics and Justice in Dystopian Literature"

  Hobart and William Smith Colleges, GSIJ 215: Utopias, March 2026.

• " Breaking with the Old Ideas: A critique of Education and Knowledge Production"

  Stanford University, KOREA 251: The Nature of Knowledge, Feburary 2024.

• "The State of Digital Humanities in Modern China Studies"

  Stanford University, CHINA 388: The State of the Field, June 2023.

• "Stories Matter"

  Stanford University, COLLEGE 107: Preventing Human Extinction, June 2023.

• "Within You, Without You: Ecology in The Three body Problem"

  Stanford University GLOBAL 200: Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, February, 2023.

Conferences

• "Representing HIstory in The Poppy War and The Three Body Problem

  World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2024.

• “Critique of Environmental aesthetics in Hao Jingfang’s ‘Folding Beijing’ and Chen Qiufan’s ‘The Fish of Lijiang’”

  World Science Fiction Convention, Chengdu, China, January 2023.

• “Echoing the Past, Looking to the future: Techno-triumphalism and nature in early post-Mao children’s literature”

  International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Stanford, CA, March 2023.

• “Geographies of the Future? Oceans and Islands in Reform Era Chinese SF”

  Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA, November, 2022.

• “Ecology, [Post]humanism, and Liu Cixin’s The Three Body Problem”

  Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, March, 2022. Council of Conferences Graduate Prize Panelist

  Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, virtual, October, 2020. Awarded Best Graduate Student Paper

  Midwest Conference on Asian Studies, virtual, October, 2020.

• “From Pesticides to Plastics: Dreams of Environmental Utopias in Socialist and Science Fiction Literatures”

  American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, virtual, April, 2021.

• “Reflections on Tsering Döndrup’s The Handsome Monk”

  Stanford East Asia Studies Workshop, Stanford, CA, November 2020.

• “Re-Imagining the Cosmos and Morality in The Three Body Problem”

  Stanford East Asian Humanities Workshop, Stanford, CA, April, 2020.

• Conference Co-Organizer

  Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, Berkeley, CA, April, 2018.

• “The Ugly Reality: Science Fiction’s Take on Aesthetics, Inequality, and the Environment”

  New York Conference for Asian Studies, Semptember, 2018.

• “‘Where Did We Go Wrong?’ Exploring Morality and Modernity through The Three Body Problem”

  Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, New York, NY, February, 2017.