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Professor Yixu Lu is a leading scholar in German Literature and Modern European History, currently serving as Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney. She holds a D Phil from Universität Regensburg and has held prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Her research focuses on cross-cultural exchanges, colonial history, and literary aesthetics, with notable contributions to Kleist studies and East-West intellectual dialogues. She has led major grants like the 'Transforming the East' project (2021) and 'Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive' (2020). Awards include the Jakob und Wilhelm Grimm-Preis (2014) and fellowships from the Australian Academy of Humanities and Göttingen Academy.
Education: BA (Peking University), MA and D Phil (Universität Regensburg). Teaching history includes University of Adelaide, Melbourne, and UTS. She is a member of China Studies Centre and the Vere Gordon Childe Centre. Her publications span monographs, edited volumes, and journal articles addressing themes like German colonialism, Jesuit translations of Confucian texts, and plant-based literary analysis.
Research highlights include analysis of diplomatic archives related to Tsingtao's occupation (2024) and interdisciplinary work on nature writing (2024). She advocates for multilingual archival research, as seen in projects mobilizing non-English historical sources to reframe Australian cultural narratives.
