Yin’s work examines the intersections between literature, popular culture, and empire. Her first book, Alimentary Orientalism (Bucknell University Press, 2023), considers how racialized forms of consumption both perpetuated and unraveled British fantasies of the East.

Her current project theorizes the cultural and transcultural logics of East Asian media forms by attending to how global media capital, digital platforms, and neoliberal structures are negotiated in everyday ways and spaces. 

Yin’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Studies in Romanticism, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Keats-Shelley Journal, Post45 Contemporaries, Situations, and the International Journal of Communication. For Post45 Contemporaries, she also edited a special essay cluster on the Korean Wave. 

Yin was born in Beijing and raised in Singapore. She holds a PhD in English from Boston College, and received her BA in English and BS in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.