Meng Xia teaches Chinese Studies at the University of New South Wales on the topic of history, memory and narrative in overseas Chinese migrant fiction. She has lectured at the Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou. She conducted an empirical research project on “theatre reception from cognitive perspective” at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, as visiting researcher in 2015. Her research interests include Chinese contemporary literature and cultural studies, memory culture studies, diaspora, narratological theories, trauma and affect, and reception theories.

Areas of interest: Theatre reception, Cognitive literary studies

Xia, M. (2022). Bearing Witness to Traumatic Memory. Angelaki : Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 27(2), 100–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2022.2046377

Xia, M. (2020). Gender Myth and Disciplined Sexuality in Geling Yan’s White Snake. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 67(2-3), 172–189. https://doi.org/10.1080/20512856.2020.1851156

Xia, M. (2012). “弗洛伊德精神分析论在电影《盗梦空间》中的映射.” [“Interpreting Inception with Freud’s Psychoanalysis Theory.”] 电影文学 Movie Literature, 571(22): 108-109.

Xia, M. (in press). “Transcultural Memory in Visions and Realities: Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary and its Publication.” Chinese Literature and Thought Today, 53(3-4), 88–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2022.2131178