Xiaohan Wang

Ph.D.

Areas of Expertise

Early American literature (Beginnings to Civil War); eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature; the novel; history of ideas

Biography

Xiaohan Wang is a Ph.D. candidate studying early American literature, history, and politics. Her dissertation project examines the representation of personal and social relations in American prose writings from the Revolutionary to the early Republic years. Her broad spectrum of interests also covers American Transcendentalism, as well as thinkers and writers including Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Hegel.

Education

B. A. and M. A., Peking University