Anthony Zhang

Biography	I am a Ph.D. student in Durham University’s Department of English Studies (since Jan 2024), supervised by Dr. Susan Valladares and co-supervised by Dr. Helen O’Connell, working on Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Before joining Durham, I studied in Peking University’s Department of Chinese Language and Literature (BA, 2016-2020) and its Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture (MA, 2020-2023, supervised by Professor Zhang Pei). My graduate research focuses on Shakespearean Drama, with a master thesis titled “‘Disembedding’ the Comedy Genre: A Study of Shakespeare’s Problem Plays.” During the final year of my master’s program, I served as a teaching assistant for the graduate course ‘Western Literary Theory in the 20th Century’. Additionally, I conducted the tutorial class for the undergraduate course ‘Comparative Literature: An Introduction.’ I also had the opportunity to be an exchange student at Leuven University for the academic year 2021-2022. Having been raised in Hong Kong, I have been serving as a Cantonese lecturer at Peking University since 2018. I was also once the Freshers Coordinator for the school’s Hong Kong Culture Association.
Research Interests	Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century English Comedy Shakespearean Drama History of Genre and Genre Theory Genesis of Genre in Modern Chinese Literature: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Comparative Literature History of Literature and Its Writing

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student in Durham University’s Department of English Studies (since Jan 2024), supervised by Dr. Susan Valladares and co-supervised by Dr. Helen O’Connell, working on Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy.

Before joining Durham, I studied in Peking University’s Department of Chinese Language and Literature (BA, 2016-2020) and its Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture (MA, 2020-2023, supervised by Professor Zhang Pei). My graduate research focuses on Shakespearean Drama, with a master thesis titled “‘Disembedding’ the Comedy Genre: A Study of Shakespeare’s Problem Plays.”

During the final year of my master’s program, I served as a teaching assistant for the graduate course ‘Western Literary Theory in the 20th Century’. Additionally, I conducted the tutorial class for the undergraduate course ‘Comparative Literature: An Introduction.’ I also had the opportunity to be an exchange student at Leuven University for the academic year 2021-2022.

Having been raised in Hong Kong, I have been serving as a Cantonese lecturer at Peking University since 2018. I was also once the Freshers Coordinator for the school’s Hong Kong Culture Association.

Research Interests

Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century English Comedy
Shakespearean Drama
History of Genre and Genre Theory
Genesis of Genre in Modern Chinese Literature: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Comparative Literature
History of Literature and Its Writing