Love in Literature; Decoding Animals

 Writing Education; Literary Theory

2015–2019: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and World Literature, Peking University

2017–2018: Joint Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

2025–Present: Associate Professor, Teaching Center for Writing and Communication (TCWC), Tsinghua University

2021–2025: Lecturer, TCWC, Tsinghua University

2019–2021: Full-time Instructor, TCWC, Tsinghua University; Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University

“Most Beloved Teacher and Course” as Voted by Graduating Students (2025)

First Prize, Tsinghua University Teaching Achievement Award (2025)

Tsinghua University Young Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award (2024)

First Prize, 11th Tsinghua University Young Faculty Teaching Competition (Humanities and Social Sciences Group) (2024)

Tsinghua University Excellent Course (2023)

Tsinghua University Annual Excellence in Teaching Award (2022)

Academic Research

Xue Genhua. How Is “Sisterhood” Possible? The Multiple Dilemmas of Women’s Relationships Narration in Delicious Romance. Arts Criticism, Issue 2, 2024, pp. 55–65.

Xue Genhua. General Education Writing Instruction and the Cultivation of “Dialogic Thinking”: Insights from American Argumentative Writing Education. Writing, Issue 4, 2023, pp. 109–117.

Xue Genhua. The Connotations of Bakhtin’s Chronotope Theory. Russian Literature & Arts, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 36–41.

Xue Genhua. On the Academic Value of Bakhtin’s Chronotope Theory. Journal of Xinjiang University (Philosophy & Social Sciences), Issue 2, 2018, pp. 114–119.

Research Projects

Principal Investigator: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2023) – “Practice of Ideological and Political Education Based on Interdisciplinary Thinking Cultivation: A Case Study of the Thematic Writing Course ‘Love in Literature’.”

Principal Investigator: Teaching Reform Project, TCWC, Tsinghua University (2021) – “A Study of the American Argumentative Writing Education System: Focusing on Grades 9–12.”

Participant: General Project of the National Social Science Fund (2023) – “A History of Research on Shahnameh in the English-Speaking World.”

Participant: Major Project of the National Social Science Fund (2022) – “A Study of the Russian School of Poetics.”

Participant: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2020) – “Exploring the Construction of a ‘Collaborative and Research-Oriented’ Teaching Team at the TCWC.”

Participant: Special Project for Ideological and Political Education, Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform (2020) – “Whole-Process Ideological and Political Education in Writing Courses Featuring ‘Thematic, Small-Class, Deep Engagement, and Peer Learning’.”

Participant: Online Teaching Innovation Case Project, Center for Faculty Development, Tsinghua University (2020) – “Cloud Writing Workshop”: An Online Platform for Peer Learning in Writing and Communication.