Dr Nan Zheng

Nan Zhang is an Associate Professor of English Literature in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from Johns Hopkins University and her BS in international finance from Fudan University. She has published a book on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group and is completing her second monograph on modernism’s engagement with various forms of virtue. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Modernist Cultures, Literature Compass, and elsewhere. 

Nan Zhang has been awarded international fellowships for her research, including the 2020 Humanities Research Centre Fellowship at the Australian National University and British Academy Seed Funding in 2019. She is a contributing editor of the Global Circulation Project (GCP) at Literature Compass. She serves on the editorial board of the Bloomsbury Academic books series “Historicizing Modernism” and the advisory board of the journal Public Humanities. She is a co-founder of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA).

At the Centre for Political Thought, she will be working on a book project that examines the interplay of finance and fiction in Edwardian Britain.