My name is Astrid Møller-Olsen, I am currently a Carlsberg Fellow with the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, where I’m writing a book about how contemporary Sinophone works of fiction use botanical characters, plant imagery and green environments to create alternative realities, explore possible futures and deal with traumatic pasts. I’m also a translator of Sinophone literature into Danish.

My first monograph Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction was published in 2022 as part of the Cambria Press Sinophone World Series – why not order one for your library, the taste is quite nice.

I have a doctorate in Chinese literature from Lund University (Sweden) and an MA in comparative literature from University of Copenhagen (Denmark). I have previously been a visiting scholar/researcher with the University of Oxford (UK), Stavanger University (Norway), Peking University (Beijing, China) and Fudan University (Shanghai, China).

I am affiliated with the Art&Earth research cluster at the University of Copenhagen, the Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature (ACCL), the Forum for Comparative Literature at Lund University, the Monster Network, the Greenhouse Environmental Initiative, and the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).

Dr. Astrid Møller-Olsen 艾喜 , she/她