I am Min and am a second-year DPhil student in English at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. I graduated with a BA in English Language and Literature from Tianjin Foreign Studies University in 2019, and with an MA in English Literature from University of Warwick in 2020. During my undergraduate studies, I also spent one year studying English Language and Linguistics at Aston University.
I am particularly interested in cross-cultural, cross-temporal, and transnational comparisons, and these comparisons are treated in my DPhil project that explores the gendered construction of Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao and her poetry through her Chinese critical reception and Anglophone translational reception. My broader academic interests include comparative and world literature, translation studies, gender studies, and the reception of Chinese literature across cultures. Besides literature, I love the humanities generally, and enjoy exploring literature’s interaction with the neighbouring fields of art, history, philosophy, and so on.
