Jack Cao

Jack Weizhe Cao

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Ph.D. Candidate

Education  

BA in English with First Class Honours – University of Melbourne

MA in English and Comparative Literature with First Class Honours – University of Melbourne

Biography  

I am a comparatist working across European and East Asian languages. My current PhD project studies contemporary Asian Diasporic and Sinophone fiction and film in the period of US-China interdependency. I am also invested in critical theory, especially in Marxism, psychoanalysis and critical race theory.

Prior to moving to the US, I completed a BA and MA (supported by the Australian government’s Research Training Program scholarship) at Melbourne University. I was given the top award in the class of 2022, winning the Percival Serle award for best thesis. Work from this research can be read at Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. My work at Penn is supported by a George L. Harrison fellowship for 2023-2024.

Selected Publications

‘Global Forms in Bolaño’s 2666: Genre, Race, Capital’ forthcoming in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2312251

Languages  

Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese (intermediate)