Rachel McVeigh comes to Harvard with a B.A. in Chinese from Oxford and a Master’s in pre-modern Chinese literature from Peking University, where she wrote her thesis on “Form and Change in the Elegiac Poetry of Early Medieval China”. She works on the interplay between individual expression and generic convention in poetry, as well as the conceptual tools used to understand and evaluate these interactions; her 2023 book chapter, “(Mis)remembering the Tang? Issues of Authenticity Surrounding the Attribution of the Ershisi shipin to Sikong Tu”, explored related ideas in the context of late-Ming literary thought. Other interests include theories of literary categorisation, comparative poetry and poetics, and contemporary popular culture in the PRC.