The Department of Comparative Literature considers applications for short-term visiting Ph.D. students on individual basis. Each semester, the Department receives multiple requests from students and scholars at other universities who would like to come to Penn State as visiting scholars. In selecting among student requests for an invitation, we consider factors such as the closeness of fit between a student's areas of interest and those in which our department specializes, the extent of a student's prior preparation, the student's English proficiency, the student's thesis (if applicable) and research proposal, and other factors.

Tammy Jinghui Wang, Visiting Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature (Spring 2006)

Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Ph.D. candidate, Beijing Language and Culture University. She specializes in postcolonial and Chinese literature, hyper-fiction, British and American literature. Wang is also a translator. Among her translated works is Agatha Christie's Lord Edgeware Dies.

While at Penn State, Wang plans to work on her dissertation on J. M. Coetzee and the impact of electronic media on Chinese canonical literature.

Click on the Tsinghua logo to the right to learn more about Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China today. Click here to learn more about studying Chinese at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua.

Tsinghua is located in the former royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty. It was established in 1911 as "Tsinghua Xuetang," a preparatory school for students who would be sent by the government to study in universities in the United States. In 1925, it became a university, and the name "National Tsinghua University" was adopted in 1928.