Lillian Lu

Lillian Lu is a scholar, fiction author, and Assistant Professor of English & Cultural Studies at UCSD. She received her B.A. (summa cum laude) in English from Tufts University and her Ph.D. in English from UCLA. Her research and teaching interests include queer, transhistorical, and transmedial approaches to the British long eighteenth century; diasporic media and adaptation; speculative fiction; asexuality studies; and novel studies. They serve as fiction editor of MENT Magazine, a public-facing journal about K-media.

Pronouns: she/they

Languages: English

Articles & Book Chapters

• “翻译: R.F. Kuang’s Babel, Jonathan Swift, and Sideways Reading,” Digital Defoe, Summer 2024.
• Co-Authored with Dr. Andrea Acosta, “A Full Account: Queer Structures and Narrative Democratization in Modao Zushi,” Catching Chén Qíng Lìng ed. Dr. Cathy Yue Wang and Maria Alberto (Peter Lang, Cultural Media Studies series), 2024.
• Co-authored with Dr. Leigh-Michil George, “‘A Hundred Different Ways of Being in Love’: Emma, Queer Austen, and Asexuality Studies,” special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction co-edited by Gena Zuroski and Manu Chander, January 2024.
• “Assuming Innocence: The Ingénue’s Satire in Frances Burney’s Evelina,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol 33, No 1 (Fall 2020), 57-76.

Shorter Creative Work

• "dandelion lights," Heartlines Spec, May 2024.
• "Ease," the lickety-split, May 2022.
• "Salt for a Tongue," Yuzu Press, May 2022.

Public Humanities Work

• “Decolonizing Story Structure and Literary Form with Lilly Lu,” Bookish Brews, May 2022.
• “A Full Account: Chen Qing Ling, Wen Ning, and Subversions of Narrative Hierarchies,” In Medias Res: A MediaCommons Project, February 2021.
• “'Indelible in the Hippocampus': Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette and the Tradition of Women’s Satire," The Rambling, 2018.

• Ph.D. in English, UCLA
• B.A. in English (summa cum laude), Tufts University
• Certificate in Writing Pedagogy (English Language Learners), UCLA
• Certificate in Writing Pedagogy (Writing in the Disciplines), UCLA