MA Qianyi Iris

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Ph.D.

Professor Eddie TAY

Professor Joanna MANSBRIDGE

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Postmodern Mythologies& Alien Women Figures& Gender and Sexuality Studies& Women’s Literature& Speculative Fiction& Creative Writing.

Conference Papers

2025	Ma, Q. (2025, June 1–4). Shapeshifting and boundary-crossing: From ‘Madam White is Kept Forever under the Thunder Peak Tower’ to Her Adventures in Serpentine and Sacrifice. Paper presented at AAS-in-Asia 2025. Kathmandu, Nepal.
2025	Ma, Q. (2025, March 6–9). The Traveling Chinese Snake Woman. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Philadelphia, USA.
2024	Ma, Q. (2024, November 12–16). Revolutionary sisterhood: The Chinese snake woman and the lesbian girl in Cindy Pon’s Serpentine and Sacrifice. Paper presented at the Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture (IAFOR BAMC2024), Barcelona, Spain. (Online presentation)
2024	Ma, Q. (2024, July 11–12). Daughter of the Sea. Short story presented at Ecopoetics and Environmental Artivism (organized by London Arts-Based Research Center), London, UK.
2024	Ma, Q. (2024, June 26–27). The World Divided: A Short Graphic Fiction. Paper presented at Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives and Arts-Based Research (organized by London Arts-Based Research Center), London, UK. (Online presentation)
2024	Ma, Q. (2024, March 7–10). Queering the abject: “The mechanics of fluids” in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Boston, USA.

Journal Articles

2025	Ma, Q. (2025). A genealogy of fish women and other imagined identities: “The mechanics of fluids” in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. Orbis Litterarum. https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12480. (AHCI-indexed)

Others

2025	Ma, Q. (2025, March 6–9). Session organizer and chair: Snake Sisters in Literature and Film. 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Philadelphia, USA.
2024	Ma, Q. (2024, July 11–12). Session chair: Panel 3.B – Literary Reflections on Nature and Climate Change. Ecopoetics and Environmental Artivism (organized by London Arts-Based Research Center), London, UK.

2025	Ma, Q. (May 2025). CUHK PhD International Mobility for Partnerships and Collaborations Award.
2025	Ma, Q. (May 2025). CUHK Reaching Out Award (HKD 10,000).
2024	Ma, Q. (May 2024). Zhilan Scholarship for the Study of Chinese Culture 2023–24 (HKD 50,000).