Ruoshi Zhang

Wolfson College
  • PhD student
Ruoshi Zhang

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Thesis title: Infinite Traveling and Non-action: Taoist Modes of Post-metaphysical Existence in Wallace Stevens and Gu Cheng

Supervisor: Prof Ian James

B.A. in English Literature (honours) at University of British Columbia  M.A. in Comparative Literature at University of Toronto. 

Academic awards: Doctoral Fellowships: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

 

Research

20th-century Continental Philosopy (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, François Laruelle), Taoist philosophy (Zhuangzi), Modernist Poetry and Poetics (Wallace Stevens, Gu Cheng), Ecocriticism, Comparative Literature.