Yanrong Wang

Yanrong Wang has joined the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies and the Centre of Literary and Intermedial Crossings in September 2022 as a PhD fellow. She obtained an MA in English Language and Literature in 2022 from Hainan University, China.

Her doctoral research at VUB is fully funded by the CSC and reflects her interest in postcolonial settler literatures as well as in questions of gender, race and ethnicity. It is entitled “Towards Hybridization: Multiplicity and Heterogeneity of Black Experiences in 21st-century Black Canadian Literature” (supervisor: Janine Hauthal) and focusses on contemporary black Canadian writing by, e.g., George Elliott Clarke, Wayde Compton, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke and Esi Edugyan.

Research Expertise: Black Canadian literature; genre

Research Methodology: narratology; intersectionality; intermediality