Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Modern and contemporary Chinese Literature
- Latin American literature and culture in the Cold War
- Theory in World Literature
- The Global South
- Women’s and gender history
Biography
Hongyang Cai is a PhD student in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture. Her current research focuses on cultural exchanges between the PRC and Latin America from the perspectives of translation, leftist politics, and World Literature. She is also broadly interested in Latin American literature produced in the Cold War and women’s history in the PRC. To justify the amount of time she spent on playing video games and board games, she has a nascent interest in ludology and narratives in games.
Presentation
“Transpacific Poetic Imaginary: Pablo Neruda, Ai Qing and the Politics of Friendship”. Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, online, 2022.
“‘Sugar Already Without Tears’: Revolutions, Body and Cane Field in Sino-Cuban Cultural Exchange.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, online, 2022.
“Phantasmal Love: Knowledge-making and the spatiality of emotion in ‘Nie Xiaoqian’”. University of Toronto, Center of Comparative Literature Conference “Unlovable”, 2023.