Yijing Zhang

Yijing Zhang is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds an M.A. in Hispanic Literature from Peking University (2020). Yijing is interested in exploring the metaphysical and spiritual potential of modern literature, intertwining literature, religion, philosophy and spirituality in open, flexible, mutually permeating and transformative dialogues, especially in works by Jorge Luis Borges and Fernando Pessoa. Topics of research interests include time, space, being, the nature of reality, emptiness, infinity and eternity, mysticism, esotericism, spirituality as method and meaning, Eastern religion and philosophy as interpretative framework, literature and science, and quantum mechanics, among others. 

 

She is a recipient of the 2023 Yale Dean’s Emerging Scholar Research Award, and multiple fellowships from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

 
Publications:

Zhang, Yijing. “What does Alberto Caeiro see?”, Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, Issue 24, Fall 2023. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/eg7p-f797

 

Zhang, Yijing. “El Aleph y Milarepa, el gran yogui tibetano”, Variaciones Borges, Issue 61, April 2026, forthcoming.