Student Information
Graduate Student
English (Literature)
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Luke Ouyang is a PhD student in English Literature. His research focuses on early modern literature, particularly seventeenth-century religious writing, the work of John Donne, sacramental poetics, and the intersection of affective history and somatic crisis.
Education
M.A., English Literature, University of Leeds, UK
B.A., English Language and Literature, Capital Normal University, China
Courses
2026 Fall
Presentations
“Is Richard III a Tyrant: The Intrusion of Literary Writing in History.” British Shakespeare Association Annual Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, 2024.
"Spiritual Anxiety in John Donne's Divine Poetry." 26th British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad), Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 2024.
"Affective Practice, Humoral Discipline and the Via Media in John Donne’s Holy Sonnets." Renaissance Society of America 73rd Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2027 (scheduled).