EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, English (2016 – 2022)
Certificate in Writing Pedagogy, Emphasis on Non-Native English Speakers and English Language Learning
Certificate in Writing Pedagogy, Emphasis on Writing in the Disciplines
Dissertation: Naïveté and the British Novel (1770 – 1830)
Committee: Prof. Helen Deutsch, Prof. Jonathan Grossman, Prof. Saree Makdisi, Prof. Sarah Kareem
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English (June 2019)
B.A., Tufts University, English Literature (2015)
Minor in Film and Media Studies (emphasis on screenwriting)
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
University College London, English Program (September 2013 – June 2014)
RESEARCH & TEACHING EMPHASES
Novel studies; Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Literature; gender and queer studies; imperial culture; critical race studies; narratology
Other emphases: fiction writing; Young Adult literature; genre fiction; transpacific media
Lillian Lu 