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Ying Xiong

In May of 2019 Comparative Literature doctoral student Ying Xiong defended her dissertation, “Herbs and Beauty: Gendered Poethood and Translated Affect in Late Imperial and Early Modern China.” Directed by Professor Yugen Wang, Xiong’s thesis traces the origins and character of Chinese modernism from the translation, undertaken by a collective of early twentieth-century Chinese poets, of European Romantic writers.

Since completing her degree, Dr. Xiong has been a research associate at Shanghai Normal University, where she helps edit the bilingual journal International Comparative Literature, housed at the prestigious Center of Comparative Literature and World Literature.