Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
Biography
Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 2026
B.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
B.A., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
Awards
Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship 2025
Departmental Dissertation Fellowship 2025
NAVSA Travel Grant 2025
INCS Graduate Student Travel Award 2024
PAMLA Graduate Student Scholarship 2022
MMLA Graduate Student Travel Scholarship 2022
Richard J. Dunn First-Year Teaching Award, Honorable Mention 2021
Top Scholar Award 2020
English-Speaking Union (ESU) Scholarship 2020
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, Honorable Mention 2020
Research
Selected Research
- Jiang, Yixuan. Amalgamated Anatomies and Crossbred Cultures: Biological Hybridity in British Colonial Fiction. 2026. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.Adviser: Jesse Oak Taylor
- Jiang, Yixuan. “‘Dark Almost as If It Came from the Devil:’ The Relationship between Heathcliff’s Racialization and His Satanic Portrayal in Wuthering Heights.” 2022. University of Washington, MA thesis.Adviser: Charles LaPorte