Xue Chen
薛晨

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Aug 2021 to May 2022

XUE Chen is an associate professor in the English Department at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and also the associate editor of Signs & Media, a bilingual semiotics journal in China. She obtained her Ph.D. in semiotics and communication at Institute of Semiotics and Media Studies(ISMS), Sichuan University. She has published Everyday Life as the Meaningful World: An Approach of Semiotics (2020), and has published articles on problems relating to semiotic study of everyday life, namely clothing, style, gift-giving, social media in digital age. Besides, she also focuses on the Significs of Welby, and has firstly translated Victoria Welby and Significs: The Birth of Semiotics (2019) into Chinese.

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