Advisor: Xiaofei Tian

Kent (Bowen) Zheng is interested in historiography, state formation, and rhetorics of legitimacy in medieval China. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 2022, where he joint-majored in Historical Studies and Classical Studies. Working on his senior...

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...

Suiyun Pan received his BA degree with Highest Honors in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his senior thesis on femmes fatales in both Chinese and Greek literary traditions. He also holds an MA...

Benjamin Orion Landauer studies Chinese poetry, with a primary interest in authorial identity and compositional practices in Medieval poetry. They also research modern Chinese poetry from the Republican and Post-socialist periods, and have spent time...

The Literary Formation of Cultural Communities in Mid-Third-through Early-Fifth-Century China

Divorce and the Divorced Woman in Early Medieval China (First Through Sixth Century)

Realm of Shadows and Dreams: Theatrical and Fiction in Early Qing Literature

Eighth-Century Anthologies and the Creation of High Tang Poetry

The Fallible Body in Early Medieval China

Self-Representation in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry: The Literary Selves of Ruan Ji, Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun, and Bao Zhao