Selina Lai-Henderson is Associate Professor of American Literature and History at Duke Kunshan University, where she is the co-director of the Humanities Research Center. She is on the editorial board of the American Quarterly (flagship journal of the American Studies Association), and is currently a non-resident Fellow, following her spring 2025 residency, in the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She has published widely in the field of transnational American Studies, where she locates works of American literature in China and in Chinese translation. Visit her scholars@Duke page below for details of her publications and leadership in the profession.

Lai-Henderson has a B.A. in English and comparative literature and a Ph.D. in American studies from The University of Hong Kong (HKU). She holds an M.A. in American studies from Heidelberg University, Germany, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University.