Yu Wang

Yu Wang is a Lecturer at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University. Her research focuses on Holocaust studies, memory studies, life writing, and illness narratives. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto (2022), an M.A. from Duke University, and a B.A. from Capital Normal University. Previously, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and a research fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Her work examines autobiographical accounts of Holocaust rescue and explores intersections between suffering narratives in terminal illness and historical trauma.

• Education: B.A. (2014) – Capital Normal University, M.A. (2016) – Duke University, Ph.D. (2022) – University of Toronto

Her research interests critically analyze the construction of selfhood through interdisciplinary lenses, including comparative readings of scholarly autobiographers and studies of rescue narratives in Holocaust historiography. She has taught courses on the Holocaust and genocide, emphasizing literary and cultural representations. Yu is currently not accepting PhD students as a primary supervisor.

Recent contributions include a book manuscript on altruistic rescue scholars during the Holocaust and a project investigating dialogues between narratives of terminal illness and Holocaust studies.