Zoey Zisu Zhang-Yang

My dissertation explores ethics, creation, and character ontology as meta-fictional questions in literature of the late Middle Ages--a period featuring the elevation of fiction, an increased acknowledgement of creativity as a moral and aesthetical value, and the rise of metafiction when texts and authors become increasingly interested in their own literary activities.

List of Publications

• ‘Gift, Givenness, and “Counter-Experience” in the Middle English Dream Vision Pearl,’ 2024 New Chaucer Society Congress, Pasadena, California, July 15-18. 2024
• ‘Knowing Through “Sauoure”: Communicating Crisis in Thomas Hoccleve’s Series,’ 2024 International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 1-4, 2024
• ‘“I Knowe Nat Love in Deede”: Aromantic Readers in and of Chaucer’s Courtly Love Tradition,’ 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9-11, 2024
• “Ælf and the Problem of Interpretation,” 18th International Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Sydney, Australia, September 28-30, 2023