Staff profile
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Miss Wanjie Feng
Research Postgraduate
| Affiliation |
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| Research Postgraduate in the Department of English Studies |
Biography
Have worked with Prof. Patrick Gray, Prof. R. H. F. Carver, Prof. Daniel Blank during their time in English Department at Durham University; currently working with Prof. Mandy Green and Prof. Elizabeth Swann. PhD thesis complies the metamorphoses (and challenges) of Stoic thinking in early modern English literature.
'When everything is not ordered and perfect, when there is a gap, you experience this inrush of something. [...] And it’s the same thing that causes people to wanna be poets instead of bankers.' -- Steve Jobs, The Lost Interview
Email: wanjie.feng@durham.ac.uk
Research interests
- Intellectual History, Classical Philosophy, Humanism, English Renaissance Literature; especially the works of Seneca, Apuleius, Ficino, Calvin, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the continental philosophers.