Chris Chan recently completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (from 2021 to 2024) in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium), where he also served as Grant Writer and Project Manager for HACIDA: Humor and Conflict in the Digital Age. Prior to joining UGent, he received his B.A. (hons., summa cum laude) in English and chemistry from Rutgers University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from Penn. His dissertation, Communal Lyricisms and the Lyricization of English Poetry, 1650–1790, was a co-winner of the Penn English Department's Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize. His scholarship, which focuses on the intersections between eighteenth-century British poetry and the modern politics of interpretation, has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Eighteenth-Century Life. His doctoral research was funded by a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship at Penn, and a Predoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA–Clark Library.

During his tenure at UGent, Chris also founded ABC Editing Services, an independent business that offers editorial support to researchers writing across the academic genres and disciplines. He also has previous professional experience in analytical chemistry, pharmaceuticals, copyediting, writing pedagogy, and higher-ed consultancy (see LinkedIn for details). You can also find his personal writing on his WordPress blog, titled "Re-entry."