Comparative Literature

Baoli ['bauli] Yang (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University, where she primarily focuses on medieval Sinoscript literature and its modern repercussions, manuscript culture, Chinese poetics, empire studies, and Silk Road studies. A multilingual and interdisciplinary scholar, she has received fellowships from Brown Graduate School, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Watson Institute’s China Initiative, T’ang Studies Society, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute to support her research. She is currently working on her dissertation “Literary Strata of Imperial Borders: Sinoscript Culture and Its Encounters Around the 8th Century.”

Education:

B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, 2007
A.M. in Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2013

Languages:

Classical Chinese, modern Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, HTML, etc.