Yue Zhuo is Professor of Comparative Literature at the School of International Chinese Studies, East China Normal University. Recruited as Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent, she previously held positions at the University of Pennsylvania as a Research Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences and at Yale University as Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of French. Her research interests encompass modern and contemporary French literature, French thought, critical theory, and contemporary French and Chinese cinema. She is the author of À l'écart du visible : Anachronisme et imaginaires de l'archéologique à partir de Barthes, Bataille, Lacan et Quignard (2011) and French Theory in China (2025). Writing in French, English, and more recently in Chinese, she has published over 40 articles in leading international journals and edited volumes, and has contributed entries to dictionaries on Roland Barthes and Pascal Quignard. Yue Zhuo serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals, including French Forum, Barthes Studies, and Le sans-visage : revue d'études sur l'œuvre de Pascal Quignard. Since her return to China, she has been actively fostering Franco-Sino exchanges on cinema and cultural theory, engaging with both general and specialist audiences.
For a list of selective publications, please visit https://ecnu.academia.edu/YueZhuo.
