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ProfessorYixu Lu

McCaughey Professor of Germanic Studies

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • McCaughey Professor of Germanic Studies
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Yixu Lu's main research interest is modern German literature and history. Her research work concentrates on the following areas: 18th-20th century German literature; German colonialism and nationalism, Greek myth in German literature and contemporary German culture and society.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Transforming the East: Jesuit Translations of the Confucian Classics
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Mar 2021 - 28 Feb 2027
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  • GRANT
    Opening Australias Multilingual Archive
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2025
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  • GRANT
    Conceptualising China in 18th Century Germany
    DVC Research1 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lu Y
  • GRANT
    Ideas of China among German thinkers of the 19th century
    DVC Research1 Jan 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lu Y
  • GRANT
    Constellations of Knowing in the works of Heinrich von Kleist. (Wissensfiguren bei Heinrich von Kleist)
    Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lu Y
  • GRANT
    Colonial Cosmopolitanism and Chinese Modernity: German Economic and Cultural Adventures in China 1870-1937
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2009
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  • GRANT
    Colonial Cosmopolitanism and Chinese Modernity: German economic and Cultural Adventurers in China 1870 - 1937
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Goodman DSG,
    • Lu Y