Stanford Humanities Center
Ashley Yung received her B.A. from Columbia University. Her senior thesis on Elena Ferrante was awarded Columbia’s Richmond B. Williams Traveling Fellowship to conduct international research in Naples, Italy, and her thesis topic was inspired by a specialized one-on-one tutorial taken while studying abroad at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. Her thesis explores re-reading literary histories in the Italian canon, how these literary histories negotiate nationalism from the founding of Rome to Ferrante’s writings about post-war Italy, neologism as an expression of minority experiences, and archivally substantiating Ferrante’s depictions of class-based and gender-based pedagogical oppression that create a violent classroom.
