Luka Lei Zhang

Research Interests: Southeast Asian Literature, Global Anglophone Writing, Socialist Literature, Working-class Literature, Migrant Workers' Writing, Marxism and Literature, Global South Studies

1. (forthcoming) 'They are afraid to write': Bangladeshi Migrant Worker Writers in Singapore., South Asian Review, 2025. (Scopus)

2. (forthcoming) From Class Struggle to the Docile Other: Singaporean Migrant Worker Narrative in Retrospective., Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 2025. (A&HCI）

3. (forthcoming) Queering Migrant Workers' Writing: Stefani J Alvarez and Her Lifeworlds., Asian Studies Review, 2026. (A&HCI)

4. (forthcoming)The Precarious Diary: Genre, Labor, and Self-Representation in the Writings of Md Sharif Uddin., Precarisation Across Literatures, Malmö University Press, 2026.

5. Migrant Workers in Asia Today: A Brief Introduction., Routledge Companion to Working-class Literature, Routledge, 2024.

6. Filipina Domestic Workers as Contemporary Working-class Poets: Writing as a Transformative Force., Kritika Kultura, 45, 2024.(A&HCI)

7. The Struggle of Worker Writers: Between Sincerity and Authenticity., Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 49, 2, 2023. (A&HCI)

8.The (Un)Making of a Worker Poet: The Case of Md Mukul Hossine and Migrant Worker Writings in Singapore., The Journal of Working-Class Studies, 6, 4, 2021. 

9. From Red Scare to Capitalist Showcase: Working-Class Literature from Singapore., Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives, 2, Stockholm University Press, 2020.

10. (work-in-progress) Can the Subalterns Speak to each other: Tash Aw's We the Survivors., Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2026, co-authored with Jeremy De Chavez. (A&HCI)

• 'I am the Silence of the Grave': Migrant Workers' Writings During the Pandemic Lockdown in Singapore, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference, National University of Singapore, 06/14/21, online
• Writing the Working Class in Hong Kong Literature, One City One Book Festival, Hong Kong, 11/12/20, online
• Museums from Below: Migrant Workers Museums in China, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare Lecture Series, Malmö University, 03/12/20
• Forgotten Voice of Singapore: A Study of Working-class Literature, Working Class Studies Association Conference, University of Kent, 09/05/20
• Offshore Island, Offshore Stories, Offshore Feelings, Critical Island Studies Colloquium, University of Macau, 04/17/24
• Proletariat of the Islands: Alliances, Resistance and Working-class Novels, Critical Island Studies Conference, De La Salle University, 10/03/24

• Nanyang Technological University Research Scholarship, 2021
• The Literary Writing Competition: Poetry Writing, first place, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2020
• Young Activists and Scholars Fellowship, Working Class Studies Association, 2019
• Excellent Student Award, Sichuan Province, China, 2014
• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2010-2013

• Judge for Working Class Studies Association Russo & Linkon Award, 2021
• Curator and moderator for Global Migrant Festival, Singapore, 2020
• Curator and moderator for Macau Literature Festival, 2023/2024
• Editor, Asian Workers New Stories, Hardball Press, 2024
• Book Reviewer, Cornell University Press, 2025