Tsz Yan Chan, St John's

Biographical Information

I am a first-year PhD student reading English at St. John's College. My research project focuses on Hemingway’s oeuvre in relation to both particular paintings and artistic movements, and the historical networks that facilitated his engagement with modernist art. I previously completed the postgraduate degree of MSc Literature and Modernity: 1900 to the Present at the University of Edinburgh with Distinction.

I am the upcoming Vice-President of the Fitzwilliam Museum Society (2023-24) and currently a Section Editor at the Cambridge Tab.

Research Interests

My research interest lies in the interdisciplinary studies between contemporary literature and the visual arts.

 

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:

Chan, Audrey. “Alberto Breccia’s Parody of Futurist Paintings in Modern Bande Dessinée: Resisting Transatlantic Fascism.” FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, upcoming. 

Chan, Audrey. “The Aesthetics of Mythical Cityscapes from Cubism to Ultraísmo: The Metaphysical Quests for Collective National Identities in Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires.” eSharp, upcoming. 

Chan, Audrey. “Sailing Beyond Capitalist Disciplinarity: Kraus and Nelson’s Conceptual Boat and Performative Writing as ‘Failures.’” Ad Alta, vol. XII, Mar. 2022, https://issuu.com/adaltabjl/docs/ad_alta_2020-21. 

Chan, Audrey. “The Contemporary Art of the Nature Morte in the Age of Artificial Life Forms: The Metafictional Illusion of Life in Installation Art and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein.” FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 32, Oct. 2021, doi:10.2218/forum.32.6469. 

Chan, Audrey. “Book Review: Violent Minds: Modernism and the Criminal.” Crime Fiction Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, Sept. 2021, doi:10.3366/cfs.2021.0049 

 

Conference papers:

Chan, Audrey. “The Aesthetics of Mythical Cityscapes from Cubism to Ultraísmo: The Metaphysical Quest for National Identity in Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires.” Postcolonial Fault-lines: Branching into the Unknown, University of Glasgow, 10-12 October 2022, University of Glasgow, Online. Conference Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “The Unrepresentable Female Body: Persian Miniatures and Myths in Persepolis.” Women in World(-)Literature, Warwick Research Collective, 22-23 June 2022, University of Warwick. Conference Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “When Indian Art Meets the West in The Moor’s Last Sigh: Repainting Indian Modernist Art Beyond British Colonialism and Secular Nationalism.” Annual Meeting 2022, American Comparative Literature Association, 15-18 June 2022, National Taiwan Normal University, Online. Conference Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “The Contemporary Art of the Nature Morte in the Age of Artificial Life Forms: The Metafictional Illusion of Life in Installation Art and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein.” Futurity in Crisis, Ctrl Network, 24 June 2021, University of Birmingham, Zoom. Flash Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “Alberto Breccia’s Parody of Futurist Paintings in Modern Bande Dessinée: Resisting Transatlantic Fascism.” Transitions 9: New Directions in Comics Studies, The Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Literature, 9 April 2021, Birkbeck, University of London, Microsoft Teams. Conference Presentation. 

Chan, Audrey. “Haruki Murakami’s Rhizomatic Underground: Traumatic Memory and New Journalism.” Canon and Values in Contemporary Literary Studies, Contemporary Studies Network, 12 December 2020, University of Birmingham, Zoom. Conference Presentation.