Yijing Zhang

Yijing Zhang is a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds an M.A. of Hispanic Literature from Peking University(2020). She has extensive research interests in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone literature, particularly on the metaphysical motifs revealed, challenged, and transformed in literary texts and the dynamics and implications of dialogues and intersection between literature, philosophy, and religion. She has participated in the translation from Spanish to Chinese of Latin American history and narratives of several contemporary Hispanic writers. Her most recent academic contribution is forthcoming in Pessoa Plural. In 2023, she was awarded the 2023 Yale Dean’s Emerging Scholar Research Award(DESRA).