Xiangtai Zeng

PhD Student in Comparative Literature

Project Title: Chinese Encounters with the Transnational British Press: Western Literary Culture in Circulation.

Supervisors: Dr Rachel Bryant Davies, Professor Matthew Rubery and Dr Xumeng Xie.

Previous qualifications:

Chinese Language and Literature at Minnan Normal University in China,

Global Literatures and Cultures at the University of Exeter,

American History and Literature at Harvard University.

During 2025–2026, I served as Convenor of the English Department Postgraduate Research Seminar.

Nineteenth-century literature,

Media history and history of the book,

Literature and social theory.