Kai Qing Tan (she/he/they) is FWO junior postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University, under the supervision of Prof. Marco Caracciolo, Prof. Bart Keunen and Prof. Maaheen Ahmed.
They hold a PhD in English Literature (with a focus on urban literary studies, embodied cognition and empirical literary studies) awarded by the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Their monograph, Affective Enactment in Narrative Space: Readers’ Encounters with Contemporary British Urban Fiction, and accompanying research in contemporary psychogeography with intersectionality in mind, are currently being prepared for publication by Bloomsbury Academic and Anthem Press respectively.
Their postdoctoral project, Disability Experiences and Intersectionality in Graphic Narrative (DEI-GN), leverages the recent developments in comics narratology and disability studies to formulate an encompassing method to analyze depictions of disabilities in the multimodal medium. It also investigates how focalization techniques shape readers’ perspective-taking and affective engagement with the experiential complexity of disabilities.