Research Interests
Modern poetry, especially Irish Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries; language and poetic forms; literary modernism; cultural studies
Selected Publications
2020
ZHOU, Y. (2020). Poetic Integrity and Impotent Witness: The Problem of Silence in the Poetry of Derek Mahon. Presented at the International Conference on Poetry Studies: "Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation". London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, London, UK. 20 September 2020.
2020
ZHOU, Y. (2020). "Part prison/ Part panic closet": Visualizing Black Male Hysteria in the Poetry of Terrance Hayes. Presented at 2020 Emotion and Literature Academic Seminar. Organized by Foreign Literature journal and Yanbian University, Yanji, China. 29-30 August 2020.
Conference Presentations
2020 online
ZHOU, Y. (27-28 May 2022). "Perfecting my cold dream/Of a place out of time": Derek Mahon's Huts and Sheds. Presented at "Escape: Moving Away, Moving Towards, Moving Within", The Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature, Queen's University, Canada.
2021 online
ZHOU, Y. (23-26 July 2021). "While I...am in two minds": Ecological Poetics and Politics in Michael Longley's Nature Poems, Presented at The Thirteenth Triennial Congress of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association, CCLA.
