Jiaqi Kang
亢嘉琪
is a doctoral student in art history at Oxford University and the founding editor-in-chief of Sine Theta, an international, print-based creative arts magazine for the Sino diaspora. They are the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2022 and a Lambda Literary Fellow 2023. Originally from Geneva, Switzerland, they are based in Oxford, UK.
Writing
Fiction
Sunita | LIKE A FEVER, Asia Art Archive, 10.2023The Chinese Teacher | The London Magazine, 10.2023The Trip | Finalist: Joyland Open Border Fiction Prize 2022, 01.2023Class of 1985 | Winner: The White Review Short Story Prize 2022, 09.2022
edited by Izabella Scott
translated into Chinese by Cindy Ziyun HuangUncle's house; it was noon | SUSPECT, 04.2022Cake shop | Jellyfish Review, 04.2022Northern Beggar | The Spectacle, 04.2022
edited by Jenny WuMonologue of a pirate ship that doesn't have a figurehead, or perhaps it once did, but it’s difficult to tell now because its bow is encrusted with clam shells and barnacles, which scuttle about and scream during a storm, as though they had mouths | X-R-A-Y, 10.2021
reviewed in A Personal AnthologyAn Lushan goes to war | Winner: Wadham Rex Warner Prize for Creative Writing, 06.2021slowburn AU | EX/POST, 05.2021
listed in wigleaf top 50 very short fictions, 2022Swimming with Robert Rauschenberg; he erases a drawing of me; my teeth fall out of my mouth | Tiny Molecules, 03.2021
edited by Connor HarrisonXianrenzhang | Hobart Pulp, 03.2021; Augment Review, 06.2022
edited by Kimberly BlissL'oeil d'Orochimaru | wildness, 02.2021
edited by Michelle Tudor
reviewed in fractured lit roundupDunhuang, in the summer | X-R-A-Y, 01.2021; Santa Fe Writers' Project, 02.2021
edited by Crow Jonah NorlanderDunhuang, a continuation | Santa Fe Writers' Project, 02.2021
edited by Monica PrinceGunk | Peach Mag, 01.2021The Buddha's Fist | Jellyfish Review, 10.2020Fujiyama, 2088 | perhappened, 09.2020
nominated for Best of the Net 2021
Poetry
晋源 | The Lumiere Review, 09.2022
nominated for Best Microfictions 2023Having your period in August in China | Zindabad Zine, 04.2021In Year Six We Had A Substitute Teacher Whose Heels Were So Dry That They Looked Like Cracked White Marzipan; I Saw Them While Going Up Some Stairs Behind Her. I Was Transfixed. These Days My Heels Have Been Really Dry And I Guess It’s My Turn To Have Marzipan Parmesan Feet. | Bat City Review, 04.2021Love sonnet from the perspective of Rod, a jock mouse who lived on my Animal Crossing island for 3 months | Ghost City Review, 10.2020A CACTUS I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE | DAYBREAKING Zine, 09.2020Oeux | Fruit Journal #2, 08.2020hayfever | harana poetry #5, 07.2020
Selected non-fiction
News from Nowhere | TOLKA, 06.2023
edited by Catherine Hearn and Liam HarrisonPortrait of an ape | SmokeLong Quarterly, 03.2023
edited by Christopher Allen
nominated for Best of the Net 2024A Set of Differences and Relations: Review of PEARLS FROM THEIR MOUTH by Pear Nuallak | SUSPECT, 10.2022
edited by Maggie Wang
etc.
Translator (Chinese to English) | My depression by Ren Hang, 2017Assistant Director (Theatre; devised) | My mother runs in zig-zags @ The North Wall (Oxford, U.K.), 02.2019 - 06.2019Director, DP, editor | 写真：浓与淡 / STUDY: NOW AND THEN (24m), 12.2015 - 01.2016
Academic
Peer-reviewed publications
Kang, Jiaqi. 'Art as Surgery: Hygiene Politics in Zhang Peili’s Glove Art, 1985–91,' Art Journal, forthcoming.
Education
History of Art Department, History Faculty, University of Oxford
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
DPhil History of Art, 2021 - 2025 (expected)
- June and Simon Li Scholarship in Chinese Art History, 2021- 2024
- DPhil associate, University of Oxford China CentreDissertation: "A pile of filth": hygiene politics and Chinese art, 1979–c.2012 | supervised by J. P. ParkKrasis Junior Teaching Fellow | Ashmolean Museum, Hilary Term - Trinity Term 2022Wadham College, University of Oxford
MSt History of Art and Visual Culture, 2020 - 2021, Distinction
- Wadham Cliff Davies Scholarship in History, 2020 - 2021Dissertation: Land of the [ ……… ]: Japanese-American internment photography from an ecocritical perspective | supervised by Geoffrey BatchenSt. Catherine's College, University of Oxford
BA History of Art, 2017 - 2020, First Class
- Distinction in First Public Examinations, 2018
- College Scholarship, 2018 - 2019, 2019 - 2020
- Katritzky Prize in the History of Art, 2019
- Gibbs Prize in the History of Art for best average finals performance, 2020Dissertation: "Horrible and Terrifying Deeds": André Derain's Pantagruel woodcuts | supervised by Alastair WrightLaidlaw Scholar | Oxford University Careers Service, 2019Krasis Scholar | Ashmolean Museum, Trinity Term 2019
Contact
twitter or jiaqi.kang at lincoln.ox.ac.ukrepresented by Matthew Turner at RCW: matthew at rcwlitagency.com
Author photo credit: Yinuo Meng, 2022