Lecturer
School of Humanities

Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture; Women's Literature; China and the Global Eighteenth Century; The Novel, Gothic Literature; Gender and Feminist studies; Postcolonial Studies; Composition Pedagogy

“Peripheral Intervention: Imperial Discourse, Gender Making, and Ideological Contestation in Mansfield Park.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. Fall 2025. (Forthcoming)

“‘Reverse, else, the medal’: Femininity as Masquerade in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer.” Studies in the Novel 55.1 (Spring 2023): 1-16.

“‘A third- a something between the do-nothing and the do-all’: A Middle-Course Word Game in Emma.” Persuasions 43 (2021): 222-233.

“The Transformative ‘Fall’: A Structural Metaphor in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.” Persuasions On-line 40.1 (2019).
https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-40-no-1/zhuang/

“Performing Northanger Abbey: Inventing Dissent and Agency through Irony.” Significations (2018): 271-283.

Dissertation: “Ambiguous Agency: The Construction of Femininity in the Gothic Writing of Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Brontë, and Jane Austen.”

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Last updated
04/10/2025