Faye Lu

Faye Qiyu Lu received her Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA in 2024, specializing in comparative studies of modern Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Her dissertation, “Sinophone Cold War Humanisms: Cultural Contestations in Philosophy, Literature, and Cinema,” critically examines cultural texts from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China in the Cold War era, situating them within a global nexus of Cold War humanistic discourses, with a focus on decolonial and Marxist humanism. Faye has published a research article in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, a Chinese-English literary translation in the edited volume Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond (2021), and academic book reviews in Chinese Literature and Thought Today and Film Quarterly. She is currently co-editing a volume tentatively titled Re-staging Taiwan in the Global Cultural Cold War and contributing to the project “Re-Visualizing ‘the West’: geo-literary images of Europe in contemporary Sinophone writings” at the University of Milan.