Yijie Hou

PhD Student
yijie.hou@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Areas of Interest

  • Premodern Chinese literature and painting 
  • Gender history 
  • Text and image 

Biography

Yijie Hou is a PhD student in premodern Chinese literature and visual arts. Her research focuses on representations of women in premodern Chinese painting and their relationship to poetry. She is also interested in how female agency is shown through women’s writings and paintings. 

Awards and Honors 

  • 2024 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowships
  • 2023 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

Education

BA (Hons), East Asian Studies and Anthropology, University of Toronto
MA, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
MA, History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia, SOAS University of London