Tianhu Hao

Qiushi Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Zhejiang University, China
Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar (2023-24)

Regions: China, England, United States
Times: 16th and 17th centuries
Themes: British Literature; Chinese Literature; Early Modern Drama; History of the Book; Poetry and Poetics; Renaissance; Shakespeare

Tianhu Hao (PhD, Columbia University) is Qiushi Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Zhejiang University, China. Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar (2023-24). He specializes mainly in early modern English literature and comparative literature. In addition to many Chinese articles and several translations, his publications include three Chinese monographs (2014, 2020, 2022) and a number of English essays. His English monograph Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond is forthcoming with Routledge. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Milton Society of America. He is the editorial board member of Milton Quarterly and Multicultural Shakespeare and the editor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.