Lucia Wu is a Ph.D. student in Nineteenth Century Studies, and her current research focuses on female creativity in Victorian literature and music. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from University College London and an MSc. in Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic, and Victorian from the University of Edinburgh. She obtained her B.A. in English with a minor in Philosophy from Wenzhou-Kean University in China. She has published “Light in the Darkness: A Chronotopic Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” (2021) and “Between Poetry and Prose: Ali Smith’s Idea on Form and Viktor Shklovsky” (2022). She has presented her paper on narratology in Henry James and George Eliot’s novels at Trinity College Dublin.

In the past four years, Lucia has been working for Languages, Literatures, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) as a peer reviewer, specializing in nineteenth-century British literature and literary theory. She is a bilingual writer in English and Chinese, having published a series of English short stories and Chinese non-fiction prose. She is also a harpist, composer, and Chinese tea specialist.