International Writers Series: Xuela Zhang In-Person
Join WashU Libraries and the Department of Comparative Literature and Thought for a reading by Xuela Zhang. Zhang is a recent graduate of the Department of Comparative Literature and Thought and will read from her debut poetry collection To Compare, which inhabits the fraught condition of living in and through translation in the age of globalization, social media, and the Chinese-American neo-Cold War. Zhang will be joined in conversation by Annie Livingston, poet, translator and current PhD student.
Free and open to all, registration requested.
If you require accommodations to fully participate in this event, please contact us at libraryevents@wustl.edu.
About Xuela Zhang
Born and raised in China, Xuela Zhang writes in English and Chinese. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Oxford Poetry, Gulf Coast, Bennington Review, PROTOTYPE, and 诗刊Shikan, among others. She received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University and PhD in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis.
- Date:
- Tuesday, March 3, 2026
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Olin Library, Ginkgo Room
- Campus:
- Danforth Campus
- Audience:
- Community Faculty Graduate Students Library Staff Staff Undergraduate Students
