Weiwei Ye

Weiwei YE, Ph.D., is an ecocritic and intercultural literary scholar specializing in American indigenous studies, ecocriticism theory from the comparative perspective. Her recent research and publications focus on environmental studies in American and Chinese academic fields and their relations with the effects of globalization in the age of the viro-cene, especially the narratives of the Virocene in Sci-fiction. She approaches her research from an international philosophy and axiology perspective and already get two books and several academic articles published in related fields; you can expect her forthcoming book titled “On the Diagram of American Ecocriticism in the 21st Century” (Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore, 2023, IBSN: 9787542682765), which is also relevant to ecocritical studies on American indigenous studies and environmental justice narratives.

Weiwei YE’s recent projects, including the collaborative efforts with Prof. Ban Wang at Stanford University here, are endeavoring to shape a new paradigm of sci-fiction criticism with a reflexive nature by merging the ecocritical perspective into it. Her current manuscript delves into the virus narrative in American science fiction, scrutinizing the works of Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988), Jack Finney (1911-1995), Frank Herbert (1920-1986), Dean Koontz (1945-), Joan Sloane (1928-1995) and Michael Crichton (1966-2008). Through a comparative lens that incorporates Chinese sci-fi works and studies, she seeks to distill the paradoxical and implicative meanings of anti-rationalism depicted in these sci-fi narratives.