Yi-Chen Andrea Lay

Yi-Chen Andrea Lay is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature with a minor in Victorian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. As a Victorianist, she is primarily interested in material culture, the British Empire, formation of national and imperial identities, and gender. Her dissertation project, engaging with food studies and scholarship on the embodied British Empire, explores late-nineteenth-century imaginations of the imperial body through the lens of alimentary practices.