Ji-yoon An is a scholar of East Asian Studies with interests in cultural trends and flows, particularly in Korean screen culture. Broadly speaking, her work focuses on Korean society and the ways that changing social values and ideologies are reflected, reworked, and imagined in visual culture. Her doctorate research examined family representations in contemporary South Korean films. Her current research interests include: trends in South Korean blockbusters, youth market and generic hybridity in K-dramas, and gender politics across South Korean visual culture.

Tseng Yu-chin's research interests lie in the area of migration, global mobility, gender and intimacy, citizenship studies and Asian politics. Her postdoctoral research explored the intersection of international mobility of higher education and cross-cultural marriage, which has conditioned the increase of transnational couples in third countries whose migration trajectories are largely shaped by multiple sets of state policies. In her doctoral project, "Becoming Taiwanese: The Politics and Struggles of Marriage Immigrants from Mainland China to Taiwan," she looked at social, political and legal struggles of female marriage immigrants from China to Taiwan and their collective movements to claim social justice. Part of this thesis was turned into a book chapter published by Routledge in 2014. In addition, based on her doctoral research, she is currently working on migrants’ resistances and reformulation of what is considered 'good citizens' (e.g. a good wife or good mother), in Taiwan.

Zairong Xiang is Postdoctoral Researcher of the DFG Research Training Group “Minor Cosmopolitanisms” at Potsdam University. His research intersects a wide range of disciplines, areas and paradigms, notably feminisms and queer theories, literature and art in their decolonized variants in Spanish, English, Chinese, French, and Nahuatl. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (summa cum laude) co-tutelle from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and Université de Perpignan Via Domitia with the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones (2014); and a joint MA in Women and Gender Studies from University of Hull and Universidad de Granada with the Erasmus Mundus Master GEMMA (2009). His forthcoming book Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration (with Punctum Books) advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources, namely Babylonian Enuma Elish and Nahua creation myths.