Mia Chen Ma

Dr Mia Chen Ma’s research bridges the fields of literature, environmental, and medical humanities. Having completed her PhD in Chinese and Inner Asian Studies at SOAS, University of London, she joined Strathclyde through the Wellcome Trust-funded Medical Humanities China-UK (MHCUK) Early Career Fellowship and am currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare. Her first book Ecocriticism in Chinese Science Fiction: Risk, Failure, and Solastalgia (forthcoming in 2025 with Brill in Open Access Model, supported by Wellcome Trust) explores contemporary Chinese science fiction and its strong ecological themes. In addition to the monograph, her recent research projects have also examined care ethics, empathetic technology, international surrogacy, and Daoist futurity.