Xiran Lu joined the Department of Germanic Languages in 2018. After receiving her B.A. in German Studies and International Studies from Macalester College in 2014, she studied European Cultural Studies at Universität Konstanz, with a concentration on literary studies, and spent one semester as a visiting student researcher in the German Department at UC, Berkeley. Before coming to Columbia, she worked as an educational consultant in China for one year.
She is interested in literary modernism and modernity, critical theory, Weimar cinema, avant-garde, literary and media theory, German intellectual history from the 18th to the 20th century, and modern Chinese literature and cinema. At Columbia, she plans to continue her research on the intersections of literature, social theory, and arts. She is also pursuing a Certificate in Comparative Literature and Society as she is fascinated by the discourse of transcultural modernity between West and East.
