E.K. Tan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in the departments of English and Asian & Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World. His essays have also appeared in publications such as Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Sun Yat-Sen Journal of Humanities, Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas. He is currently working on two separate book projects tentatively titled “Queer Homecoming: Translocal Remapping of Sinophone Kinship” and “Mandarinization and Its Impact on Sinophone Cultural Production: A Transcolonial Comparison of Ethnic China, Singapore and Taiwan.” He was also a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center (2023–2024).