Yijing Zhang

Yijing Zhang is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She studied law and Spanish in undergraduate, and obtained an M.A. of Hispanic Literature from Peking University(2020). Her research interests range across nineteenth and twentieth Spanish literature, modern and contemporary Latin American literature and Lusophone literature, with a particular focus on the expression and variation of metaphysical, religious and ethical motifs in literary texts, such as works by Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, Fernando Pessoa, etc. Her research can be understood as a reconsideration of the classification, mutual implication, and connotation of the metaphysical and the physical, the divine and the profane, so as to explore the metaphysical potential of modern literature.
Yijing has had experience in translating from Spanish to Chinese Latin American history and contemporary Latin American narrative. She has presented her research in conferences of relevant fields and her most recent article “What does Alberto Caeiro see?” has been published by Pessoa Plural. She was awarded the Yale Dean’s Emerging Scholars Research Award(DESRA) in 2023 for her dedication and passion for her field of interests.

Department: Spanish and Portuguese