Chris Fan is Associate Professor of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies at UC Irvine. He directs UCI Global Asias as well as UCI’s Center for Taiwanese and Taiwanese American Studies. He is the author of Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP, 2024), whose Chinese translation was published in Taiwan by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Press in 2026. He is co-editor, with David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta Niu, of Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions (Rutgers University Press, 2025), which was translated into Korean by ORCABOOKS and published in South Korea in June 2026. And he is co-editor, with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Paul Nadal, and Tina Chen, of a special issue of the journal Verge titled “The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media.” From 2023-2024, Chris was a Mellon New Directions Fellow focusing on human geography and Taiwan studies. He is on the editorial board of American Literary History and his academic and public-facing writing has been published in American Literary History, American Quarterly, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Post45, Public Books, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a second-generation Taiwanese American, born in Houston, Texas.