Biography
College Affiliation: Balliol College
Thesis title: Point of No Return: Suspended Futures and the Reconstruction of Home and Migrant Subjectivities in a Chinese Qiaoxiang
Teresa (she/her) is a DPhil candidate in Area Studies (China) at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. Her doctoral research follows the attempted “homecomings” and return migrations of Chinese labour migrants who have spent decades abroad, exploring how lives are rebuilt after return and what it means to live in conditions of constant mobility that feel increasingly constrained. She employs immersive, multi-sited, multilingual, and visual ethnographic methods, and her work engages broader questions of bodies in motion, shifting desires and subjectivities, and moving images across blurred spaces.
Teresa’s interdisciplinary background includes a BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London, an MRes in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in Chinese Studies from SOAS.