[English] Julia S. Zhu M.A.
Lecturer and research associate
40225 Düsseldorf Building: 24.21
Floor/Room: 04.63
Office Hours
Tuesdays & Wednesdays from 12:30am
Or by appointment via e-mail
Short profile
Julia Shengqi Zhu is a graduate of Area Studies Asia/Africa at Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2016-2017 she was the German scholarship stipendee of the Heiwa Nakajima Foundation at Tōkai University in Kanagawa. From 2019 onwards, she enrolled in the Master's degree in Modern Japanese Studies at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, where she was a project research assistant at Bürgeruniversität from 2021-2022. She joined the institute teaching staff in April 2022 as part of her PhD program.
She has previous experiences as a language teacher for Japanese, German and English.
Fields of research
- Soc. cult. Neurodiversity/ASD discourse (autism spectrum disorder)
- Postmodern consumption theory in soft power/nation branding
- Gender and queer studies
- Classical and modern lexical poetology (waka, enka)
September 2, 2023
Made In Japan: Japan's soft power. Connichi 2023, RheinMain CongressCenter, Wiesbaden.
October 8, 2022
LGBT and gender diversity in Manga. Connichi 2022, Kongress Palais, Kassel.
November 17, 2022
«Anata»: The lyrical adressee in Enka music. Relationship and gender portrayals in Japanese song texts. 28th Gender workshop for the annual VSJF meeting, Zürich University, Zürich.