Team > Lu Gan
Lu Gan
Faculty of Languages and Literature
North American Studies
Lu Gan is currently engaged with her doctoral project “The Imagination of Posthuman Bodies in Contemporary American Dystopian Novels” at the University of Bayreuth. Before the doctoral program she studied Translation and Interpretation as well as American Studies at the Shanghai International Studies University. She has a dual master degree in American Studies from the University of Bayreuth and the Shanghai International Studies University. She has worked for Prof. Cortiel as research assistant and is now committed to support the DFG-funded project on “Contemporary American Risk Fiction.”
Academic Career
| since 2015 | PhD Candidate and Research Assistant for the Professorship of North American Studies at the University of Bayreuth |
| 2012 - 2014 | MAIAS program at the University of Bayreuth Master Thesis: "Beyond Patriarchal Discourse: Imagining Alternative Citizenship in Three Feminist Utopias" |
| 2011 - 2014 | Postgraduate Studies (American Studies) at Shanghai International Studies University |
| 2007 - 2011 | Undergraduate Studies (Translation and Interpretation/English Literature and Language) at Shanghai International Studies University Bachelor Thesis: "Ends Justify the Means—-A Study of Yan Fu’s Translation Views" |
Courses
WS 2017/18: 41120 Asia and the Alien - Techno-Orientalism in Contemporary American Popular Fiction
Faculty of Languages and Literature
North American Studies
Lu Gan
PhD Student, Research Assistant
E-Mail: lu.gan@stmail.uni-bayreuth.de