Visiting Scholars

• Zongliang Yang
  

  Visiting Scholar / PhD Candidate
  (951)546-7864
  yangzongliang2018@163.com
  
  Biography 
  Zongliang Yang is a visiting scholar in the Department of English at UCR. His host supervisor is Professor Michelle Raheja. He holds both a BA and an MA in English Language and Literature. Currently, he is a fourth-year PhD candidate at the School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University, China. His research mainly focuses on animal studies, colonialism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism in American literature, particularly in Native American literature. His doctoral dissertation is titled “Animal Narrative in Contemporary Native American Fiction.” This research is funded by the joint doctoral program offered by the China Scholarship Council and UCR.