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 particular focuses on the manifestation and variation of metaphysical, religious and ethical motifs in modern literature, such as works by Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, and Fernando Pessoa. Her research pursues a reconsideration and reinterpretation of the significance and implication of metaphysics in modern literature through a combination of eastern and western religious lenses, to explore the revealing metaphysical potential of literature.
Yijing has experience in translating from Spanish to Chinese Latin American history and contemporary Latin American narrative. Her research has been presented in conferences of relevant fields, and her most recent article “What does Alberto Caeiro see?” has appeared in Pessoa Plural. In 2023, She was awarded the Yale Dean’s Emerging Scholars Research Award.

Department: Spanish and Portuguese