Yue Zhuo’s research and publications focus on cross-genre writings in modern French literature and essayistic writings in modern French philosophy. After a dissertation on the phenomenon of anachronism and archaeological imagination in four idiosyncratic writers (Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, Pascal Quignard, and Jacques Lacan), she developed separate projects to pursue each author’s unique “against-the-grain” stance and unclassifiable style. Her current approach emphasizes the hidden links between sexuality and religiosity, between autobiography and theory. She has recently completed a book manuscript entitled La force du négatif, Georges Bataille et la question du sacré, and her second book project will be devoted to the notion of the Neutral in late Roland Barthes. She has published on a wide range of topics in twenty-century theory and criticism, as well as on one of the most acclaimed contemporary authors in France, Pascal Quignard. For a list of publications, click here.