Wei Zhou

Position: Visiting Fellow

Areas of expertise: Modernism; T. S. Eliot; modern and contemporary poetry; classical reception; literature and transport; regional modernisms; cosmopolitan modernisms

Email: [email protected]

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1073-8258

Wei Zhou portrait

Profile

I hold a PhD in English from the University of Leeds. My PhD thesis, ‘Modernist Nostos in The Waste Land and Four Quartets’, examined T. S. Eliot’s reimagining of home and homecoming through a creative engagement with the classical trope of nostos (‘homecoming’). Recognised for Research Excellence, I passed my viva with no corrections. After completing my PhD, I joined the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute (LAHRI) as Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Alongside my LAHRI fellowship, I undertook teaching and research across departments including the School of English, the Language Centre, the Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems (CELCE), and the School of Geography.

Recent Publications

  • ‘Vivien Eliot, The Criterion, Autobiografiction’, The Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society (UK) (2025), 1–33. Read article
  • ‘“Musing upon the king my brother’s wreck”: Shipwrecked Nostos in a Ulyssean Palimpsest in The Waste Land’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 60.4 (2024), 494–510. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae077
  • ‘XIV Modern Literature. 6(a) British Poetry Pre-1950: General’, The Year’s Work in English Studies, 103 (2024), 71–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maae016
  • ‘T. S. Eliot’s Sartorial Imagination: Poetry, Fashion and Culture’, The Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society (UK) (2024), 1–31. Read article
  • ‘T. S. Eliot and the Return of the Soldier: Re-gendering Nostos in The Waste Land’, CoSMo: Comparative Studies in Modernism, 22 (2023), i, 101–14. View article
  • ‘Eliot’s Criterion and “Ulysses”’, James Joyce Broadsheet, 123 (2022), 6. JSTOR link
  • ‘Review of Virgil and Joyce: Nationalism and Imperialism in the Aeneid and Ulysses, by Randall J. Pogorzelski’, James Joyce Broadsheet, 118 (2021), 3. JSTOR link
  • ‘Review of The Classics in Modernist Translation, edited by Miranda Hickman and Lynn Kozak’, James Joyce Broadsheet, 116 (2020), 3. JSTOR link

Student Education

I have taught a range of undergraduate modules and was recognised as Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) in 2021.

Qualifications

  • PhD English
  • MA English Language and Literature
  • BA English

Professional Memberships

  • Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society
  • British Association for Modernist Studies
  • British Comparative Literature Association
  • Modern Languages Association
  • Modernist Studies Association
  • The International T. S. Eliot Society
  • T. S. Eliot Society (UK)

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