Overview
Lu earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Spanish Language and Literature from Peking University, China. Before coming to Cornell, she worked as Assistant Curator at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, as well as Senior Editor at the Shanghai Biennale. Her current research is centered on modern and contemporary Latin American literature and art, with a specific focus on themes such as space, landscape, and technology. Lu’s dissertation project examines the depiction of outer space imagination in both written and visual mediums within the contexts of Cuba, Mexico, and the Andean region during the Cold War era.