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Menglu Gao is an Assistant Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Denver’s College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, affiliated with the English & Literary Arts and Asian Studies departments. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University (2021). Her research focuses on 19th-century British and Anglophone literature, with specialties in medical humanities, empire studies, comparative literature, environmental humanities, and critical theory.
Her first book project, Addictive Forms: Opium, Physiology, and the Stimulable Empire in the Nineteenth Century, examines how medical theories of opium use shaped imperial structures. This work received two prestigious awards: the 2020 Walter L. Arnstein Prize and the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies’ 2021–22 Outstanding PhD Thesis Award. Her publications appear in Studies in the Novel, Literature and Medicine, and George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies.
Gao’s teaching emphasizes 19th-century British literature, world literature, literature and science, empire studies, and postcolonial ecocriticism. She has also contributed to transnational pedagogical initiatives, such as the Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom project, which explores East Asia’s role in Victorian Studies.
