An Evening with R.F. Kuang, 10/10
Granoff Music Center
20 Talbot Avenue
The Asian American Center delighted to bring Rebecca F. Kuang (known also by her pen name R.F. Kuang) to campus this fall. As both a novelist and an academic, Kuang will speak to her experiences in the humanities from both a publishing and academic standpoint. Kuang is a leading voice among young authors, and her books explore themes of colonialism, decolonization, resistance, translation, and cultural appropriation. She writes across genres, historical moments, and settings - her Poppy Wars series is a historical fantasy based on the events of the Opium Wars in China, her novel Babel is another historical fantasy that explores academia’s roots in colonialism and what decolonization looks like in the academy, and her novel Yellowface is a literary fiction novel that explores questions of identity, authenticity, tokenism, and cultural appropriation in the publishing industry. Kuang is also pursuing her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she researches Sinophone literature and Asian American literature. Members of the Tufts community who are dedicated to the humanities will find a way to connect with and learn from R.F. Kuang.
The format of the event will be a fireside chat for forty-five minutes, followed by a fifteen minute Q&A. Tickets will be free to all Tufts community members, and books will be available for purchase before and after the event.
