Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Chenyu is a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature.  He received a B.A. in English from Shanghai International Studies University in 2016 and an M.A. in English Literature from Peking University in 2019.  He works primarily on Early Modern European literature, particularly Renaissance Latin texts.  His current projects investigate the reception of classical rhetoric in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with a special focus on the idea of the high style.  He is also interested in the role that the Manchu language played in the Early Modern Sino-European interface.