Luoshu Zhang
Assistant Professor, English
- Email: luoshu.zhang8@furman.edu
- Phone: 864.294.2627
- Office: Furman Hall 100N
Luoshu Zhang is an Assistant Professor of English at Furman University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Duke University. Her research and teaching focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, especially speculative fiction and questions of environment, embodiment, and difference. In addition to literature, she enjoys teaching writing and film.
Education
- Ph.D., Duke University
- B.A. with Honours, Australian National University
Research Interests
Dr. Zhang’s research examines how contemporary literature and film imagine survival, transformation, and futurity in the face of ecological and social crisis. She is especially interested in speculative narratives that challenge normative ideas of the human by centering queer, racialized, disabled, and more-than-human forms of life. Her current book project, Temptations of the End: Apocalyptic Desire and Queer Ecological Futurity in Contemporary Speculative Fiction, explores how apocalyptic fiction can reframe collapse as a site for rethinking relationality, reproduction, and what kinds of futures are worth preserving. She is also developing a second project on fungi in literature and culture as figures of ecological entanglement and transformation.
Publications
- “Fungal Horror/Fungal Hope: The Zombie Apocalypse Narrative in M. R. Carey’s Hungry Plague Duology and Ling Ma’s Severance.” American Literature, vol. 98, no. 2, June 2026, pp. 275-298.
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