Jingyi Ouyang is a PhD student in English at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Dr Timothy Gao and Dr Jane E. Wright. She obtained her MA in Comparative Literature (Distinction) from the University College London under the supervision of Professor Alexander Samson. Her PhD thesis is on how the silver fork novel, also known as 'the fashionable novel', a once-popular literary genre in the 1820s and 30s Britain, fashioned and refashioned its materiality throughout the genre's rise and fall. She has presented her work at several national and international conferences, including the Global Jane Austen: Celebrating and Commemorating 250 Years of Jane Austen (University of Southampton, July 2025), where she delivered her paper on the connections between Jane Austen and the silver fork novel. She is also interested in the Brontë Sisters, the late eighteenth-century Britain and its aristocracy, and the Napoleonic Wars.

She is the Chinese translator of William Dalrymple's From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (1997; Chinese edition published in 2022), Andrea Stuart's Josephine: The Rose of Martinique (2013; Chinese edition published in 2023) and Andrew Roberts's George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch (2021; Chinese edition forthcoming).