College: Selwyn        

Email: xw366@cam.ac.uk

Supervisor: Prof Emma Wilson

Research Topic: Space, feminism, body, memory

About

Xinyi Wang is a PhD candidate in French, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge. She is interested in space, body, memory, feminism text and vision. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature at Wuhan University, China. Then she came to Cambridge for her MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, graduated with the dissertation ‘Space, Feminism and Art: Virginia Woolf and Agnès Varda’. Her current research focuses on space, woman, mythology in films of Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Research       

Women who return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Resnais, Varda, Kieślowski (ongoing)

Space, Feminism and Art: Virginia Woolf and Agnès Varda

Reinvent the City: Paris vu par Cléo/Varda/Spectators...

Representation of Body: Dora Maar and Agnès Varda

Landscape as “Persona”: A Way of Seeing

The Hermit with Topophilia: Reading Nan Shepherd’s Poetry

Teaching

Critical Theory 2021-22

Conference papers

‘Rethinking Space and Memory in Hiroshima mon amour’.