ProfessorYixu Lu

Project Opportunities

Title: Modern German literature and history

Summary of opportunity:

After obtaining her BA from the Peking University, Yixu Lu spent seven years as a postgraduate at the Universität Regensburg, Germany, completing her MA and Dr phil. in German Literature and Modern European history. She came to Australia as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and has taught at the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne and UTS. She has been a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (2002, 2008, 2012, 2019) and an Invitational Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2019). She was awarded the Jakob und Wilhelm Grimm-Preis for her distinguished contribution to research, teaching and international collaboration in German Studies by the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) in 2014. Yixu Lu is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Corresponding Fellow of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany). She is the president of the German Studies Association of Australia and a member of the Council of the Australian Academy of Humanities

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

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