Elaine L. Wang is an essayist and fiction writer from Beijing, currently working on her first novel. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Raritan, Public Seminar, and The Point, where she has also served as a contributing editor.

At the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, her research focuses are modernist literature between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; epic and tragic genres; aesthetics; poetics; and theory of form. Previously she received a BA in Humanities from Yale University. 

In 2024, she won the Adam Zagajewski Prize for one of her short stories. In 2026, she will be a fellow in residence at the Vermont Studio Center.

Contact: elainelywang [at] uchicago [dot] edu.