Jenny He

About

Jenny is a 3rd year postgraduate researcher, supervised by Dr Caroline Summers and Dr Sijing Lu.

Jenny occasionally writes for a number of literary publications including Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry London, Tears in the Fence, Hopscotch Translation, and Asian Review of Books. She is also a trustee for Charity Translators.

Research

Her project 'Algorithms, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame: English novels as Chinese digital propaganda' examines the most frequently recommended English novels in translation on Chinese social media and e-commerce platforms, and their promotion of traditional heroine archetypes as post-feminist role models of female empowerment in an era where the Chinese Communist Party has adopted pro-marriage and pro-natal policies as a means of redressing the increasing population crisis.

Research Interests

• Translation theories,
• platform studies,
• reception,
• algorithmic governance,
• social media & digital culture,
• popular culture,
• propaganda.

Conference Papers

'Algorithmic Rewriting, Digital Patronage and the manipulation of literary fame: English literary heroines on Chinese social media platforms.' IATIS, December 2025, Sultan Qaboos University

'Algorithms, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame', October 2025, New Literacies in Translation, University of Tarragona

'Canon Fodder: Platforms, Patronage, and Power', September 2025, Trextuality2, University of Galway.

'Heroine Chic: English novels as marriage and fertility propaganda', July 2025, EST, University of Leeds

'Red Translation and the Little Read Book' December 2024, IPCITI, University of Manchester

'Algorithms, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame',November 2024, ICIST, Kaunas University of Technology

'All the Single Ladies', May 2024, SMLC Symposium, University of Warwick

'Red Translation in contemporary China: #socialism - what’s trending?', March 2024, I International Conference on PhD Research about Translation, Madrid Complutense University

Publications

Book Chapters

He, J. (forthcoming) ‘Canon fodder: Platforms, patronage, and power’, in Tanasescu, R. (ed.) Translation, materiality and circulation. Routledge.

Literary Reviews

Interview with Fiona Sze-Lorrain, May 2024, Modern Poetry in Translation

'Narrative Subjects', Review: 'La Mysterique' by Jennifer Lee Tsai, March 2024, Tears in the Fence

'In the margin', Review: 'The Lost Book of Barkynge' by Ruth Wiggins, March 2024, Tears in the Fence

'Linguistic Dissidence': On Yang Lian's political transgressions of language, Review: 'A Tower Built Downwards' trans. Brian Holton, 2023, Modern Poetry in Translation

Review: 'Bearing Word' by Liu Liangcheng, trans. Jeremy Tiang, 2023, Asian Review of Books

'Life Lessons': a review of four new poetry pamphlets, 2023, Poetry London

Scholarships and Awards

Centre for Arts Doctoral Research Excellence CADRE Scholarship

Academic roles

IPCITI 2025 Organising Comittee

SMLC PGR Symposium 2024 Organising Committee

Non-academic roles

Member of the Board of Trustees for Charity Translators.

Qualifications

MA Translation, London Metropolitan University

BA Hons English and Drama, University of Bristol

Memberships

ARN - Australian Reception Network