Gwennaël GAFFRIC
Literary studies, ecocriticism, cyber humanities, postcolonialism
Gwennaël Gaffric is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France). His PhD thesis was about ecological issues in Taiwan literature. He is also a translator of Chinese, Hongkongese and Taiwanese contemporary novels. His research interests include literary studies (especially science fiction and cyberliterature), ecocriticism, postcolonialism, and translation studies. He has recently published a book entitled La Littérature à l'ère de l'Anthropocène: une étude écocritique autour des œuvres de l'écrivain taïwanais Wu Ming-yi (L'Asiathèque, 2019), and co-edited a book with Vanessa Frangville, entitled China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces: Creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance (Routledge, 2019).
Publications
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China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces: Creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance, London: Routledge, 276 pp.
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“Where Wild Grass Grow: Chinese Youth Culture Formation in Physical and Virtual Spaces”. In V. Frangville & G. Gaffric (eds), China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces: creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance, Routledge, 2019.
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“Collective space/time travel in Chinese cyberliterature”. In V. Frangville & G. Gaffric (eds), China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces: creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance, Routledge, 2019, pp. 189-202.
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“Histoire et enjeux de la science-fiction sinophone”, Le Monde chinois, n°51.
GENEsYs Events
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GENEsYs Final Online Conference: East Asian Youth in Public Spaces
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GENEsYs Panel at International Conference - "Youth and public spaces", 2018 Asian Studies Conference Japan, International Christian University
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GENEsYs Workshop n°2 - "China Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces". 7-8 June 2018, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Other events
- "Is there a Chinese Cyberpunk?", Workshop “The technological imaginary in contemporary Chinese literature”, University of Paris, CRCAO and University of Zurich, January 2020.
- "The Rise and Fall of Cyber Time-travel Fiction", Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture, Workshop at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Zurich, November 2020.
- “Virtual Worlds in Virtual Spaces: The Emergence of Chuanyue Fiction”, Asian Studies Conference Japan (ACSJ), 30th June -1st July 2018
- “Quelle herméneutique pour la cyberlittérature chinoise ?”, Workshop on “Nouveaux formats et métamorphoses des genres littéraires en Asie, Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, June 2018
- The Hermeneutics of Cyberliterature: Chinese Online Literature as a Case Study”, Conference, World literature & Philosophies Lecture Series, March 2018.
- "The Changing Field of Chinese Cyberliterature”. Workshop “Digital Youth in East Asia: Theoretical, Methodological and Technical Issues”, Université Libre de Bruxelles, October 2017
- “Virtual Worlds in Virtual Spaces: The Emergence of Chuanyue Fiction”, Workshop “Youth Culture in China: Spaces of Creation, Consumption, Circulation and Representation”, Université Libre de Bruxelles, September 2017
