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I'm Anqi Peng (Angie), a PhD student of Literary Studies in the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where my research bridges digital humanities methods and literary interpretation across English and Chinese texts. From 2021 to 2023, I was a Visiting Graduate Researcher in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where my engagement with feminist theory and transnational gender politics continues to shape my interdisciplinary approach.

My research brings digital humanities tools—SNA (social network analysis), GIS, data visualization—into conversation with close reading. I ask how computational methods can illuminate not just patterns, but meaning: the philosophical turn in a Tang poet's work, the slow unraveling of ideology in Gothic romance.

I am currently a PhD candidate in English Literary Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. My work-in-progress, "From Court to Hermitage: A Data-Visualization of the Philosophical Evolution in Wang Wei's Poetry and Painting," employs social network analysis and GIS to map the poet's social and spatial networks across his career. A related article on digital approaches to British Gothic literature is currently under review for a special issue of English Studies.

Alongside this, my published work explores religious projection in literature (Religions 2021), the shapeshifting fox spirits of Chinese folklore in Anglophone animation (Cogent Arts & Humanities 2023), and ethical literary criticism in fairy-tale adaptations (English Language and Literature Studies 2024).