Haihong Yang

Haihong Yang is an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies and Asian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Delaware’s College of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarship focuses on Chinese women’s poetry and culture from the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as comparative literary translation.

Education:

• Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, 2010
• B.A. English, Fudan University, China, 1995

Research Interests:
Professor Yang’s primary research explores how women poets in late-imperial China employed poetic forms to assert agency and negotiate social and political identities. Her award-winning monograph Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China: A Dialogic Engagement (2017) investigates dialogues between women’s writings and male scholarly discourses, revealing innovations in aesthetics and self-identity. A second book project examines representations of women and history in Chinese cultural products, while a third offers a comparative study of British and Chinese women’s poetry spanning the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

Teaching:
She teaches Chinese language courses at all levels, as well as literature and culture courses delivered in translation, including Chinese-English translation practice.

Current Projects & Grants:
Two book manuscripts are in progress: a study of women and historical narrative in Chinese culture, and a transnational comparison of early-modern women’s poetry. Grant and funding details are not specified in the provided text.