Kyle Shernuk is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature and culture at Georgetown University. His research takes a particular interest in disempowered and minoritized populations, most recently focusing on issues of ethnicity, Indigeneity, queerness, and language in global Chinese communities. He is the English translator of Tao-Indigenous Taiwan writer Syaman Ragpongan’s novel, Eyes of the Sky (CUP 2026), and short story, “The Dorado’s Spirit”  (2025), as well as Paiwan-Indigenous writer Dadelavan Ibau’s “Muakai” (2021). His research appears or is forthcoming in A Counter Literary History of Taiwan in the New Millennium: Taiwan in Contexts, Volume I (2026), Chinese Poets Since 1949, Second Series (2025), Global Asias: Tactics and Theories (2024), Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature(2021), International Journal of Taiwan Studies (2021), Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (2020), and A New Literary History of Modern China (2017).