Yutong Chen

Yutong Chen is a recent graduate in English from China University of Political Science and Law. Her research interests include Beat literature, death studies, comparative poetics, and the intersections of literature and philosophy. Her undergraduate thesis, “Death, Nonduality, and Meaning-making in Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish,” brings postmodern theories of contradiction into dialogue with Madhyamaka thought. The paper has been accepted for presentation at the 2026 EBSN Annual Conference, “The Beats and Materiality: Bodies, Media, Matter.”