yutcai@uchicago.edu
Gates-Blake 215
Office Hours:
Tuesdays 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (in-person and Zoom), and by appointment.
Cohort Year:
2022
Subject Area:
French and Francophone Studies
Research Interests:
Ecocriticism, language as/in ecology, biosemiotics, phenomenology, translation
Yuting holds a B.A. in French and Francophone Studies from Shanghai International Studies University and an M.A. with Distinction in Comparative Literature from University College London.
Focusing on 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone prose literature and theory, her research investigates how nonhuman narratives (de)compose subjectivity and practice language as/in ecology.
She is currently writing her dissertation on coquillage and tropism.
Recent courses in RLL
- FREN 10200 Beginning Elementary French II (Winter 2025)