Michaela Mengxue Wu

Graduate Teaching Associate,

TCLAS School of International Letters and Cultures - Graduate Teaching Assistant/Associates

[email protected]

Mail code: 0202

Campus: Tempe
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Student Information

Graduate Student
Comparative Culture and Language
The College of Lib Arts & Sci

Long Bio

Michaela Mengxue Wu is a PhD student in the Comparative Culture and Language program, Arizona State University. Her research areas are philosophy, cultural studies, and early Chinese intellectual history. She is interested in the dynamic relations between philosophy and Chinese culture, with specific focuses on the themes of memory, writing, subjectivity, and poetry translation. She works on understanding the formation of classics in early China during the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 CE) from a philosophical perspective via the works of Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Jan Assmann, and Ezra Pound.

Courses

2026 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
GRK 223	Intro to Greek & Roman Myth
LAT 223	Intro to Greek & Roman Myth
SLC 223	Intro to Greek & Roman Myth
GRK 223	Intro to Greek & Roman Myth

2025 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SLC 142	Ancient Greek Civilization
GRK 142	Ancient Greek Civilization

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHI 102	Elementary Chinese II
CHI 102	Elementary Chinese II
CHI 494	Special Topics

2024 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
GER 441	Fairy Tales to Disney Movies
SLC 441	Fairy Tales to Disney Movies
GER 441	Fairy Tales to Disney Movies
SLC 441	Fairy Tales to Disney Movies

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHI 102	Elementary Chinese II

2023 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CHI 201	Intermediate Chinese I
CHI 201	Intermediate Chinese I
CHI 201	Intermediate Chinese I

2023 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
CHI 202	Second-Year Chinese II

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHI 202	Second-Year Chinese II
CHI 202	Second-Year Chinese II

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CHI 202	Second-Year Chinese II

Expertise Areas

Chinese Literature

Continental Philosophy