Profile
Nan Zheng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University. She also serves as the Deputy Chair of the department and as a council member of the Spanish and Portuguese Literature Studies Division of the Chinese Foreign Literature Society. Her research centers on contemporary Chilean literature and culture, identity politics in the works of modern and contemporary Hispanic American writers, as well as the interactions between literature and visual arts. She is the author of the scholarly monograph Family-Kinship Writing and Identity Imaginations in Chilean Women’s Fictions (智利女性作家的家庭亲缘书写与身份想象实践,2025). Her work has been appeared in Chinese, Spanish, and English in a range of leading journals indexed in A&HCI and CSSCI, including Chasqui: Revista de Literatura y Cultura Latinoamericana e Indígena, Revista Chilena de Literatura, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Foreign Literature (国外文学), Foreign Literature Review (外国文学评论), Foreign Literature Studies (外国文学研究), Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art (文艺理论与批评), among others. She also serves as a peer reviewer for multiple A&HCI- and CSSCI-indexed journals in the field of Hispanic American literary and cultural studies.
Educational Experience
M.Phil. and Ph.D., Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Hispanic American Literatures
B.A., Peking University, Hispanic Philology
Work Experience
2025 to present, Deputy Chair, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University
2019 to present, Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University
Research Interests
contemporary Chilean literature and culture, identity politics in the works of modern and contemporary Hispanic American writers, as well as the interactions between literature and visual arts
Teaching Courses
Undergraduate: Latin American Literary History and Selected Readings II, Spanish Intensive Reading
Graduate: Studies in Hispanic Narrative Fiction
Selected Publications
I. SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH
郑楠《智利女性作家的家庭亲缘书写与身份想象实践》，东北师范大学出版社，2025年。
In English: Zheng, Nan. Family-Kinship Writing and Identity Imaginations in Chilean Women’s Fictions. Northeast Normal University Press, 2025.
II. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
1. 郑楠《卡彭铁尔〈人间王国〉中作为历史经验观的神奇现实》，载《外国文学研究》2025年第4期，第159–172页。(CSSCI)
In English: Zheng, Nan. “The Marvelous Real as Historical Erfahrung in Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World.” Foreign Literature Studies, vol. 47, no. 4, August 2025, pp. 159–172. (CSSCI)
2. 袁婧，郑楠《开放的美洲巴洛克——以莱萨马·利马诗歌中的动物形象为例》，载《社会科学战线》2023年第9期，第267–273页。(CSSCI)
In English: Yuan, Jing and Nan Zheng. “The Open American Baroque: Taking the Animal Images in Lezama Lima’s Poetry as Examples.” Social Science Front, no. 339, 2023, pp. 267–273. (CSSCI)
3. Zheng, Nan. “A Trilogy for the Defeated: Nonhuman Affect of Landscapes and Objects in Patricio Guzman’s Post-Transitional Documentaries.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 57, no. 2, June, 2023, pp. 293–319. (A&HCI)
4. 郑楠《智利“羊皮纸重著”与战败者目光——以古斯曼民主过渡后三部曲和瓦乔一代文学创作为例》，载《文艺理论与批评》2022年第6期，第144–160页。(CSSCI)
In English: Zheng, Nan. “The Chilean ‘Palimpsest’ and the Viewpoint from the Defeated: A Case Study on the Post-Transitional Trilogy of Guzmán and the Literary Creation of the Generations of Huachos.” Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art, no. 218, 2022, pp. 144–160. (CSSCI)
5. Zheng, Nan. “Against the Authoritarian Orator and His Pater familias: Deviant Literarity and Orphaned Speech in El padre mío by Diamela Eltit and Lotty Rosenfeld.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures: Latin American Special Issue, vol. 5, no. 2, December 2021, pp. 12–21.
6. 郑楠《月相三阶段：从新月、满月到残月——论莱昂诺拉·卡灵顿“双联”创作中的多文化女性主义》，载《国外文学》2021年第1期，第79–87页。(CSSCI)
In English: Zheng, Nan. “Waxing Moon, Full Moon, and Waning Moon: Leonora Carrington’s Diptych-Like Aesthetic Endeavor and Multicultural Feminism.” Foreign Literatures, no. 161, 2021, pp. 79–87. (CSSCI)
7. 郑楠《文化互化与美洲巴洛克：阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔〈柱之城〉中的城市常量与日常革命》，载《外国文学评论》2020年第4期，第220–238页。(CSSCI)
In English: Zheng, Nan. “Transculturation and New World Baroque: Urban Constants and Quotidian Revolution in La ciudad de las columnas.” Foreign Literature Review, no. 136, 2020, pp. 220–238. (CSSCI)
8. Zheng, Nan. “El huarachaje como subversión y la paradoja del incesto en Mapocho de Nona Fernández y ‘Árbol genealógico’ de Andrea Jeftanovic.” Chasqui. Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, vol. 48, no. 2, November 2019, pp. 142–156. (A&HCI)
9. Zheng, Nan. “La intimidad transgresora en la ficción de Costamagna, Fernández, Jeftanovic, Maturana y Meruane. ¿Podemos hablar de una nueva generación literaria?” Revista Chilena de Literatura, no. 96, November 2017, pp. 351–365. (A&HCI)
III. BOOK-LENGTH TRANSLATION (SCHOLARLY)
Translation of Siskind, Mariano. Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America. Northwestern University Press, 2014. (From English to Chinese, to be published by Shanghai People’s Press)
IV. BOOK-LENGTH TRANSLATION (LITERARY)
1. Translation of Luiselli, Valeria. Lost Children Archive: A Novel. Vintage Books, 2019. (From English to Chinese, co-translated with Yilin Zhao, published by Shanghai People’s Press in 2025)
2. Translation of Carrington, Leonora. Down Below. New York Review Books, 2017. (From English to Chinese, published by Guangxi Normal University Press in 2023)
3. Translation of Enrigue, Álvaro. Muerte súbita. Anagrama, 2013. (From Spanish to Chinese, published by CITIC Press Corporation in 2018)
4. Translation of Luiselli, Valeria. La historia de mis dientes. Sexto Piso, 2013. (From Spanish to Chinese, published by Shanghai People’s Press in 2018)
Research Projects
2024 to present, Principal Investigator, “Family-Nation Allegories and Identity Imaginations in 21st-Century Chilean Women’s Narratives” (Project No. 24YJC752015). Young Scholar Project, Humanities and Social Science Research Fund, Ministry of Education of China/教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目. In progress.
2021-2025, Principal Investigator, “Family-Nation Allegories in Chilean Women’s Narratives” (Project No. 21WXB006). General Project, Humanities and Social Science Research Fund, Beijing Municipal Office of Philosophy and Social Science Planning/北京市社会科学基金一般项目. Completed.
2021-2023, Principal Investigator, “Identity Politics in Modern and Contemporary Hispanic American Literature” (Project No. 7100603423). Humanities and Social Sciences Startup Fund, Peking University/北京大学人文社科人才启动资金项目. Completed.
Social Affiliations
Council Member, Spanish and Portuguese Literature Studies Division of the Chinese Foreign Literature Society/中国外国文学会西葡文学研究分会
Honors and Awards
2023, Peking University NG Teng Fong/Sino Award for Young Outstanding Scholars
Overseas Experience
1. Zheng, Nan. “Affective Landscapes and Haptic Objects in Patricio Guzmán’s Post-Transitional Trilogy of the Defeated.” XL Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress. Online. May 6, 2022.
2. Zheng, Nan. “Párpado deformado, cuerpos quemados: la belleza abyecta en ‘Ptosis’ de Guadalupe Nettel y ‘Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego’ de Mariana Enríquez.” XXXVIII Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress. Online. May 15, 2020. Panel Chair “Nuevas voces latinoamericanas”
3. Zheng, Nan. “La ‘estética huacha’ y el afecto nómada en las obras de tres escritoras chilenas: Diamela Eltit, Nona Fernández y Alia Trabucco Zerán.” XLII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI). Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogotá, Colombia. June 13, 2018.
4. Zheng, Nan. “Fisura y disenso: la ficción de seis escritoras chilenas en la postdictadura.” XXXV Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress. Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru. April 29, 2017. Panel Chair “Un cuerpo para (des)armar: narrativa latinoamericana reciente”. Student Grant for the International Congress LASA2017.
5. Zheng, Nan. “Fisura y disenso: la generación de seis escritoras chilenas y su ficción sobre crecer y escribir bajo la dictadura y la postdictadura.” XX Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Chilena de Estudios Literarios (SOCHEL). Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. October 26, 2016.
6. Zheng, Nan. “Wandering Phantoms and Fatherless Orphans in Santiago.” The Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS) Conference. University of Delft, Delft, the Netherlands. June 16, 2016.
