Kunyu Tan
Thesis title: Economics and Ethics: Reconciling Self and Other in George Eliot’s Writings
Year of study: 3
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: s1921188@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
PhD in English Literature from The University of Edinburgh (2021–Present)
MA in Comparative Literature from University College London (2019–20)
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor for Literary Studies 2A
Research summary
My research interest is how an individual navigates the relationship with others in a community/society in George Eliot's novels by putting the literary texts in dialogue with economic and social texts.
Current research interests
I'm interested in the shaping of individual identity in nineteenth-century fiction and economic literary criticism.Affiliated research centres
- George Eliot Fellowship
Conference details
2023.9 BAVS 2023 Conference
Organiser
The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
Papers delivered
Social Organicism: An Interdependent and Heterogeneous Community in Silas Marner