Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun

Graduate Student
xiaoxue@umail.ucsb.edu
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Office Location: 

Phelps Hall 6213

Specialization: 

Comparative Literature

Education: 

  • BA in Chinese Literature, Jilin University
  • MA in Comparative Literature and World Literature, Peking University
  • MA in English Literature, Loyola Marymount University

Bio: 

Wendy Sun is a Chinese student who is currently doing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a German emphasis. She speaks Chinese, German, English, and is learning French.

Research: 

Wendy's research interests include: Memory Studies and the Holocaust, Gender and Sexuality studies in Chinese Literature, Translation Studies, and World Literature.

Projects: 

Translator from German to Chinese: Als die Hasen noch fliegen konnten: Gutenachtgeschichten für Mirle. Publication in process.

Publications: 

  • "Poppy and Memory: Darkness Spoken between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan" in THE APOLLONIAN.

Courses: 

  • Elementary German