Yixun Zhang, Hughes Hall
Degree: PhD
Course: English
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Meer
Dissertation Title:
Course: English
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Meer
Dissertation Title:
Melville’s Fictional Lists
Biographical Information
I earned my Bachelor of Arts in English from Peking University in Beijing, followed by a two-year Master of Finance degree at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance. I then moved to the UK for a second master’s degree in English and American Studies at the University of Oxford, before commencing my PhD studies at the University of Cambridge.
Research Interests
In my PhD thesis, I tries to investigate the dissemination of knowledge and transnational intellectual flows in post-Jacksonian America, with an emphasis on the works of Herman Melville.
Selected Publications
Yixun Zhang, Terraqueous Intimacy, The Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 367–379.