Joy Shan
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Academic Year:
2015-16
Direction:
From Yale
Exchange Partners:
University of Cape Town
Research Interest:
Writing on the Move: the Literary History of Cape Town from an Urban Transport Perspective
Joy recently graduated from Yale College, where she studied English and nonfiction writing. Outside of class, she edited the Yale Daily News Magazine and led backpacking trips for incoming freshmen. She’s spending this year at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities. Her research explores the ways in which public transportation in Cape Town intersects with the city’s literary cultures: how taxis, trains, and busses have shaped different communities of readers and writers across the Western Cape Province.