Kiu-wai Chu (朱翹瑋) is Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities, and a faculty member of the Chinese programme. He obtained his PhD in Comparative Literature in University of Hong Kong, and his previous degrees from SOAS University of London and University of Cambridge. He was a visiting Fulbright scholar in University of Idaho, and Postdoctoral Fellows in University of Zurich and Western Sydney University. He is Luce East Asia Fellow 2022-23 at the National Humanities Center . His research focuses on ecocriticism, environmental humanities, human-animal studies, and contemporary cinema and visual art, specifically in Chinese, and broader East and Southeast Asian contexts.

He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies (Routledge, 2023) and Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema: Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsorman (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming in 2025). He is working on his monograph, provisionally titled Chinese Eco-images in the Planetary Age. His work has appeared in Oxford Bibliographies; books such as Transnational Ecocinema; Animated Landscapes; Ecomedia: Key Issues; The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema; Cli-fi: A Companion; Chinese Environmental Humanities; and journals Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture; Journal of Chinese Cinemas; Journal of Chinese Governance; Asian Cinema; photographies; Screen; ASAP/J, and elsewhere.

Kiu-wai actively serves in boards and leadership positions of academic journals and associations in the field of environmental humanities. He is previously a Living Lexicon Co-editor (2020-23) and currently an Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (Duke U.P.). He was an elected Executive Council Member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE-US) (2021-23).

He is also an editorial advisory board member of journals ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (Oxford U.P.), Media+Environment (University of California Press), Environmental Communication (Taylor&Francis); Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Books), and the book series "Green Media" (Amsterdam U.P.); "African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities" (Brill); "Entanglements: Rethinking Comparison in the Long Contemporary" (HKU Press), "Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment" (Liverpool U.P.), and "Towards a Global Understanding of Cultural Work” (De Gruyter Press).