Xinyu Zhang
IES Graduate Fellow 2025-26
Xinyu H. Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and holds an M.A. in Icelandic Literature from the University of Iceland. He is a reader of critical theories and Far North literature (Nordic-Scandinavian texts, especially those from Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland). He seeks to learn from the poignant dialectics between literary history and natural history in narratives of uneasy settlement in the Far North. He has also published on the production of contemporary Icelandic novels in relation to a pervasive “global” atmosphere of techno-environmental-economic anxiety, which is entangled with Iceland’s own postcoloniality. He has translated many works of Icelandic literature into Chinese.