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Susie Yue Wu is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in modern Chinese literature and cultural studies. Her current research focuses on environmental media and multispecies entanglements in contemporary China. More broadly, her interests include human-animal studies, science and technology studies, new materialism, Asian spirituality, and digital humanities. She completed her master’s thesis on the changing representation of mosquitoes in twentieth-century China in relation to the rise of a biopolitical regime during the communist era. Her dissertation project explores the intersections between animality and individuality in contemporary Chinese cultural landscapes, tracing how multispecies encounters in literature, film, and digital platforms reconfigure notions of self, kinship, and personhood.