Nick Stember

Nick is currently a Masters student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia with research interests in Chinese visual narrative [comics & film], personal memoirs and travel literature. Nick has spent the last six months readjusting to life in North America after three years spent teaching English in Shanghai. In 2010 he completed his BA in Chinese at Portland State University, having spent one year in Harbin at the Harbin Institute of Technology. During college Nick worked as a burger flipper, document scanner, farm hand, pre-school teacher, produce seller and, somewhat more awesomely, wildfire fighter.

Nick can answer questions about the above, in addition to more general questions about contemporary Chinese literature and culture.