Education:
BA, Comparative Literature, Brown University, 2018
MA, Humanities (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), University of Chicago, 2023
Biography:
Yanqing Shen is a dual-title PhD student in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies. She works on comparative Chinese and Japanese literature from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
Research Interests:
Early modern and modern Chinese literature; early modern and modern Japanese literature; comparative modernities; translation studies; courtesan narratives.