Bonnie Pang is a fifth-year PhD candidate whose research centers around the genre of historical fiction, with a focus on 20th and 21st century British literature. Her dissertation reevaluates historical fiction to properly reflect its current resugence. Taking formal elements of narrative such as character, setting, and narration as its organizing principes, her project advocates for a comparative approach that looks at how historical narratives are in dialogue with each other through fiction rather than just fact.

 

She is also interested more broadly in the ramifications of fictionality in historical fiction across global contexts and multi-modal forms. Her work reveluating the formal function of the character of Osei in what is often considered Japan's first modern novel has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies. She received a BA in English and Russian Studies from Vanderbilt, and she taught in Japan through the JET Programme before coming to WashU. She has taught College Writing, the Modern British Novel, and is currently a Graduate Fellow at the Writing Center.