Dr Daozhi Xu is currently an ARC DECRA fellow in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. She completed her PhD at the University of Hong Kong where she is an adjunct Assistant Professor. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Indigenous studies, Chinese Australian history, children’s literature, race and ethnicity, and settler colonialism. She was awarded a Macquarie University Research Fellowship (2020-2023) for research on the relationships between Indigenous Australians and Asian immigrants. She was also awarded Australian Historical Association’s Allan Martin Award and the Herbert & Valmae Freilich Project ECR Small Grant Scheme in 2022.

She is the author of Indigenous Cultural Capital: Postcolonial Narratives in Australian Children’s Literature (2018), which won the Australia–China Council’s Biennial Australian Studies in China Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature “Alvie Egan Award”. She has published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, Australian Aboriginal Studies, JASAL, Antipodes, etc. Her article entitled “Chinese Australian Perspectives on the ‘Protection’ of Aboriginal People in the 1890s” was shortlisted and commended for the 2024 Patricia Grimshaw Prize instituted by the board of Australian Historical Studies.

She is also interested in translation and has translated several books and poetry collections.

She is a member of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures at Macquarie University, and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She has served on the Executive board of the International Australian Studies Association since 2016.

• postcolonial studies
• Chinese Australian history
• Indigenous literature
• Asian Australian literature
• children’s literature
• race and ethnicity
• settler colonialism