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Michelle Chunhan Hsu is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford, affiliated with Wadham College and the Department of French. Her research interrogates the representation of China in turn-of-the-century French literature, focusing on themes of gender, identity, and imperial power dynamics through works by authors such as Judith Gautier, Octave Mirbeau, and Pierre Loti.
- Educational Background:
- DPhil in French Literature (University of Oxford)
- Master's in Literature: Theory, History (École normale supérieure, Paris)
- MSt in Modern Languages (Linacre College, Oxford)
- BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures (National Taiwan University)
Her academic work bridges hackneyed Orientalism and intertextual experimentation, analyzing how French authors negotiated China's political modernization through literary melodrama. She has presented at conferences like the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and Oxford-Princeton graduate forums, emphasizing gendered heroism and transcultural nation-building.
As a translator, she is completing a Traditional Chinese version of Madame Bovary, with prior translations spanning works on geopolitics, art, and trauma studies. Her outreach includes podcast episodes on the Petit Palais' Sarah Bernhardt exhibition and a UNIQ Summer School workshop on French translation.
