Zixuan Wang

Wang Zixuan (Lila) is a PhD candidate in Linguistics and Literature at the VUB. She holds a Master of Social Sciences in European Studies from the University of Macau (having spent a semester as an exchange student at the Catholic University of Lille in France, giving her a multidisciplinary background spanning Linguistics and Literature—European Studies—Historical Memory. Her research centres on WWII, racial discourse and identity politics. Now her current doctoral research focuses on how Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda and the Nuremberg Laws constructed Jews as ‘dangerous others’, and how silenced Jews reconstructed their self-identity through private writings such as diaries and letters. She is committed to unravelling the chain linking propaganda—law—ethnic self-narratives, and explores the enduring themes of silence and voice, oppression and resistance.