Dr. Heather Inwood is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and Fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests revolve around the contemporary culture of Greater China, with a particular focus on avant-garde poetry, genre fiction, popular culture, and digital media. Her research considers interactions between media and culture in contemporary China, especially the ways in which twenty-first century digital media practices are shaping the production, circulation and reception of literature and culture. Her first book, Verse Going Viral: China’s New Media Scenes, published in 2014, examines the interactions between poetry scene participants, the media, businesses and members of the non-poetry-reading public in the production and evaluation of contemporary Chinese poetry.
She has written Chinese-language columns for BBC China, as well as other publications in the United Kingdom and China. She has also translated and interpreted Chinese for ABC Sports, MTV China, and other organisations.
She has recently finished writing her second monograph, entitled Netfic: China’s Other Worlds, and continues to work on topics related to Chinese genre fiction and popular media and cultural practices in the Chinese-speaking world.