About

Born in Taipei, raised between Pretoria and Johannesburg, and based in Chicago, Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen is a scholar-curator committed to championing African literatures and photography. Their PhD dissertation-in-progess considers how a selection of African writers and photographers draw on animism as a strategy to pose different questions about what it means to be human. Always thinking at the intersections of postcolonial and queer studies, their work more broadly is grounded in questions about what it means to relate ethically across identity categories.

Sreddy’s writing can be found in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Research in African Literatures, the Johannesburg Review of Books, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, and the Nairobi Print Project journal. They are also the guest curator of the upcoming group exhibition Testaments to the Beautyful Ones at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. When they are not posting about the books they are reading on Instagram at @sreddyen, they are in the kitchen furiously stress-baking.