Ge Tang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ge Tang is on the verge of completing her PhD in English at the University of Melbourne and will be joining the Minerals team in late October. Her thesis examines the intriguing relationship between emotion and racial politics in Anthony Trollope’s travel writing on British settler colonies in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2022, funded by the Macgeorge Bequest, the University of Melbourne, Ge conducted archival research at renowned institutions, including the National Library of Australia, the British Library, and the Bodleian Library, where she researched Trollope’s manuscripts and investigated the religious sites connected to Chinese migrants in Australia’s goldfields. As part of WP 4 – Infrastructural Regimes, she is working on a project titled “Extractive Infrastructures, Affective Mapping, and Chinese Miners in Southern Settler Colonies in the Long Nineteenth Century,” examining how the infrastructural realities in colonial mining settlements shaped emotional and social experiences and, in turn, influenced cross-cultural narratives in the Southern Settler Colonies of Britain.