Yuyue Sun is a cultural geographer researching the intersection of affect theory and diaspora studies. She is a third-year PhD researcher visiting from the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK. Her doctoral thesis, provisionally titled Affective Diasporas/Diasporic Affect, aims to provide novel conceptual vocabularies for articulating the minor lifeworld of the Chinese diaspora. More specifically, it aims to move beyond the overdetermined vocabularies of identity and belonging by uncovering the texture and potentiality of the feeling-otherwise phenomenology from humourlessness to inactivity. She has wide-ranging theoretical interests, including non-representational theory, queer theory and cultural studies. Methodologically, she experiments with creative qualitative methodologies such as life history interviewing, diagramming and autotheortical writing. She is also passionate about communicating and collaborating with diverse partners beyond academia, having co-published community zines with queer Chinese diaspora activists and artists. She holds an MSc in Human Geography: Society and Space from the University of Bristol, UK, and a BA in Geography from the University of Birmingham, UK.  

Research Interests: 

• affect theory
• diaspora studies
• non-representational theory
• queer theory 
• cultural studies

Publications (selected)

• Sun, Y., 2025. ’Oxymorons’, in Zhang, V. & Anderson, B. (eds) The promise of cultural geography. Cultural Geography (Un)limited Editions, Bristol and Durham. Available at: https://doi.org/10.71706/8dfd3ca0-0a6d-49ce-abdb-568a7ccbb807.
• Sun, Y., Huang, J., and Liang, Y, (eds) 2025. 'The Duet of the Exodus'. Pearl Slug Studio, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai