Richard Huanyu Yue

PhD candidate in Chinese & Comparative Literature
research interests:
  • Late Qing Literature
  • Chinese Diasporic Literature
  • Affect & Emotion Theory
  • Geo-Poetics
  • Chineseness, Sinophone, and Diaspora
  • Memory and Post-Memory Studies
  • New Cultural History
  • Classicism
  • Digital Humanities
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mailing address:

  • Washington University
  • MSC 1111-107-115
  • One Brookings Drive
  • St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
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Richard Huanyu Yue is a PhD student in the Chinese and Comparative Literature joint degree program.

Huanyu Yue (樂桓宇) is a Ph.D. candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. He is now a visiting student at the University of Cambridge. He mainly works on classical-style poetry and intellectual history in China's "long 19th Century" (more specifically, from the 1870s to the 1920s) but also dabbles in modern and contemporary Chinese literature. His theoretical interests include classicism; affect and emotion theories; memory and post-memory studies, new cultural history, Sinophone, and Digital Humanities. For the collection of his published writings, please see: https://huanyuyue.academia.edu/

Huanyu's most recent work is the Oxford Bibliographies article "Modern Chinese Poetry", which is co-authored with Prof. Shengqing Wu and Song Abel Han.