Email:isabelleleihan@sjtu.edu.cn
Research Expertise:Semiotics, Contemporary western literary theories, Comparative poetics, Sino-foreign literary relations, ect.

Email:isabelleleihan@sjtu.edu.cn
Research Expertise:Semiotics, Contemporary western literary theories, Comparative poetics, Sino-foreign literary relations, ect.
Lei Han is a tenured associate professor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; and a member of the editorial boards of three international journals: Biosemiotics (SSCI), Literary Compass (A&HCI) and Chinese Semiotic Studies (ESCI); she is a special research fellow at the Institute of Semiotics & Media Studies.
She obtained her BA and Ph.D degrees at Fudan University;
She had been a visiting scholar at Charles University at Prague, in 2017.
She has published widely on semiotics of discourse, contemporary French theory, cultural studies and comparative poetics. Her monograph Lun luolan ba’erte: yige huayu fuhaoxue de kaocha《论巴尔特:一个话语符号学的考察》 (On Roland Barthes: An exploration of Semiology of Discourse) was published in 2019. Other recent publications include “The idealistic elements in modern semiotic studies: With particular recourse to the Umwelt theory” (2021), “The untranslatability of Literaturnost revisited in the era of artificial intelligence” (2023), “Reinterpreting Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt: Bridging science, humanities, and arts with harmony” (2025, co-authored with Haoran Sun), and “Semiotic democracy and its discontents: Barthes on language, ideology, and the governance of signification” (2026, forthcoming).
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