Senate Faculty

Dora Zhang

Associate Professor
20th- and 21st-Century British
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
20th- and 21st-Century American
Narrative & the Novel
Asian American and Asian Diasporic

My research interests have focused on Anglo-American and European modernist fiction, literature and philosophy, novel theory, affect theory, visual culture, and aesthetics. More recently, my worked has also turned to contemporary literature, especially Asian American and Asian diasporic literature.

My first book, Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel, appeared in 2020 from the University of Chicago Press as part of the "Thinking Literature" series. It turns to some experiments of modernist form - by James, Proust, and, most centrally, Woolf - in order to...