Jenny Wan Ying Chak is an MPhil student in the Comparative Literature department at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include East-West Literary Criticism, Ecocriticism, Classical Chinese Literature, Gothic Literature, and Detective Fiction. Her thesis employs a transcultural ecogothic lens to explore the intricate representations of nonhuman animals and natural environments in Pu Songling’s and Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories.