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Claire Lyu is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, specializing in Modern Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, and interdisciplinary intersections between Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Eco-criticism. Her current research challenges modern theory's negativity paradigm through re-examinations of 19th-century French modernist texts, focusing on Stéphane Mallarmé's 'le blanc' as a space of relationality rather than absence.
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Wellesley College
- Master of Arts (MA), Johns Hopkins University
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Johns Hopkins University
Research interests span French Modernist Literature, Negative Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Animal Studies. She explores literature's capacity to disclose relationality through blank space phenomenology and engages with Bruno Latour's and Isabelle Stengers' nonmodern frameworks. Her work bridges literary criticism, philosophy, and ecological thought.
Her publications include analyses of Mallarmé's spatial poetics, Flaubert's narrative strategies, and Baudelaire's psychoactive aesthetics. Key themes involve deconstructing self-referential literary enclosures and highlighting language's connective potential across human and non-human domains.
- All-University Outstanding Teaching Award (2000-2001)
- Z-Society Distinguished Faculty Award (2001)
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship (2001-2002)
She teaches graduate courses in Literary Theory, Modern Poetry, and Baudelaire-Rimbaud-Mallarmé studies, alongside undergraduate courses on Baudelaire and Modernity, Poetry and Attention, and Cultural Studies topics.
