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Professor Nan Zhang
Associate Professor

Professor Nan Zhang

BS, MA Fudan; PhD Johns Hopkins

Contact Information

Phone

3917-1921

Email

nzhang@hku.hk

Profile

Nan Zhang received her BS in International Finance from Fudan University, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from Johns Hopkins University. She was a recipient of the 2020 Humanities Research Centre Fellowship at Australian National University and British Academy Seed Funding in 2019. She works on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and global modernism. Her research interests also include cosmopolitan studies, history of political thought, aesthetics and ethics, economic history, and finance. She is completing a book exploring modernist writers’ engagement with various forms of virtue in a global context. Her new book project focuses on transmutations of British liberalism at the turn of the twentieth century.

Nan Zhang is co-editor of the "Global Circulation Project (GCP)” at Literature Compass. She serves on the editorial board of the Bloomsbury Academic books series “Historicizing Modernism,” and on the advisory board of the journal Public Humanities. She is a co-founder of the Modernist Studies in Asia network (MSIA) (https://www.modernismasia.hku.hk/).

Publications

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Monographs

Civilized Individuals: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2018.

Edited Special Issues

Cities of Global Modernism, co-edited with Nicoletta Asciuto (University of York) and Mae Losasso (University of Warwick),  Modernist Cultures, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2025.

The Histories and Practices of Modernist Studies in Asia, co-edited with Kunio Shin (University of Tokyo), Literature Compass, vol. 20, 2023.

Journal Articles and Chapters in books

“Selling Short or Buying Long: Financial Wars and Future Creation in 1930s Shanghai,” Modernist Cultures 20.1 (2025): 35-54.

“Cities of Global Modernism: Introduction,” co-authored with Nicoletta Asciuto and Mae Losasso, Modernist Cultures 20.1 (2025): 1-10.

“‘The New Economy and the Old Morality’: Reimagining a Liberal Culture in Howards End.” Modern Fiction Studies. 69.3 (2023): 393-416.

“Global modernist studies: Asian perspectives” (co-authored with Kunio Shin), Literature Compass 20.1 (2023): 1-8.

“Home and Wanderlust: Patriotic Wayfarers on the Path of ‘Universal Life’ in Rabindranath Tagore.” Journal of East-West Thought 8.3 (2018): 59-84.

“La litterature mondiale et les mondes litteraires. Une perspective moderniste sur le cosmopolitisme esthetique,” in Chine France – Europe Asie: Itinéraire de concepts, eds. Michel Espagne and Li Hongtu, Paris: Rue d’ulm, 2018.

“‘Solemn Progress’: Woolf, Burke, and the Negotiation of Virtue.” Modernist Cultures 12.3 (2017): 391–415.

Reviews and Translations

Review of Julian Lovelock, The Business of Reading: A Hundred Years of the English Novel. Evelyn Waugh Studies, Evelyn Waugh Studies 53.3 (Winter 2022).

Review of Emily Jones, Edmund Burke & The Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914. Shanghai Review of Books, September 2018.

Review of Alice Wood, Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism: The Genesis of The Years, Three Guineas and Between the Acts. The Journal of Modern Literature 40.3 (2017): 52–55.

Review of David Bromwich, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence. Reading (China), August 2015.

Chinese co-translation of Confrontations: Studies in the Intellectual and Literary relations between Germany, England, and the United States During the Nineteenth Century (《对峙：十九世纪德英美文学与思想关系研究》), by René Wellek, Commercial Press, Ltd., 2024.

Chinese translation of “History and Normativity in Political Theory: The Case of Rawls,” (政治理论中的历史与规范性: 以罗尔斯为例) by Richard Bourke, Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 53.4 (2021): 1-13.

Chinese co-translation of Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (《文化失忆：写在时间的边缘》), by Clive James, Beijing Daily Publishing House, 2020.

Chinese translation of “On the Problem of Time in Global History,” (关于全球史的时间问题), by Jürgen Osterhammel, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 60.1 (2018): 56-62.

Chinese translation of The British Museum Is Falling Down (《大英博物馆在倒塌》), by David Lodge, Shanghai Yiwen Publishing House, 2010.

Chinese translation of Changing Places (《换位》), by David Lodge, Shanghai Yiwen Publishing House, 2007.