Lei Han is a tenure-track associate professor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; and a member of the editorial boards of two international journals: Biosemiotics (SSCI) 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. Her translation of Juri Lotman’s Culture and Explosion into Chinese will be published soon.

Journal Papers

• 《“罗兰·巴尔特与中国”——关于影响研究的对话》，《社会科学研究》，6 (2012): 175-188。[CSSCI]
•  “On the Cultural Turn of Translation Studies in China in the New Millennium: A Semiotic Appraisal and Prognosis.” Chinese Semiotic Studies 9 (2013): 64-75. Nanjing: Yi Lin. 
• 《罗兰·巴尔特与中国：一个话语符号学的文本实验》，《中国比较文学》，2 (2014): 92-106。[CSSCI]
•  “Juri Lotman’s Autocommunication Model and Roland Barthes’s Representations of Self and Other.” Sign Systems Studies 42.4 (2014): 517-529. Tartu: Tartu UP.
•  “The Reception of Tartu Semiotics in China: A Preliminary Survey and a Few Case Studies.” Chinese Semiotic Studies 10.1 (2014): 133-163. (The 2^rdauthorship) Mouton: De Gruyter. 
• 《罗兰·巴尔特书写中国的矩阵符号学考察》，《法国研究》，1 (2015): 64-74.
• 《罗兰·巴尔特的“中性”修辞学》，《当代修辞学》，3 (2015): 16-24。（第2作者）[CSSCI]
• 《罗兰·巴尔特的“跨语言学”设想及其学术渊源》，《语言符号学通讯》，3 (2015): 27-38。
• 《尤里·洛特曼的自主交流模式：重述与反思》，《语言与符号》，1 (2016): 87-94。
• 《“Niche”概念的符号学解读》，《中外文化与文论》，4 (2016): 207-216。[CSSCI]
• 《重读<叙事作品结构分析导论>》，《中国文学研究》，1 (2017): 10-14。[CSSCI]
• 《<老子>的主体世界建构：一个生物符号学观点》，《符号与传媒》，2 (2018)：47-58。[CSSCI]
• 《论罗兰·巴尔特爱之言谈中互文性与主体间性问题》，《中国文学研究》，2（2019），9-15。[CSSCI]
•  ”A Historical and Semiotic Analysis of Cina's calling on/relation to China in the Cultural Revolution.“ In: The Waterfall and the Fountain: Comparative Semiotic Essays on Contemporary Arts in China (Eds. Massimo Leone, Bruno Surace, and Zeng Jun)， 2019 [Lexia 34(2019): 165-178. Special issue.] [SCOPUS]
•  “Reading Chinese anti-COVID-19 pandemic narratives on facemasks as the art of disaster governance: a semiotic and biopolitical survey.” Social Semiotics. DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2020.1810559 [SSCI, A&HCI].
•  “The Idealistic Elements in Modern Semiotic Studies: With Particular Recourse to the Umwelt theory.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Mar 2021: 107-128. DOI: 10.6240/concentric.lit.202103_47(1).0006 [A&HCI]
• “The untranslatability of Literaturnost revisited in the Era of artificial intelligence.” Babel, 4(2023): 1-16. [A&HCI]

Book chapters

• 《罗兰·巴尔特的“我/他”片段式记忆书写》，见：张汉良主编：《符号与记忆：海峡两岸的文本实践》，台北：行人出版社，2015年，第315-325页。
• “The Legacy of Émile Benveniste in Roland Barthes’ Representation of Self and Other.” In: Émile Benveniste, la croisée des disciplines (Ed. Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato), Limoges: Éditions Lambert-Lucas,  2022.

Conference papers

• “Human Umwelten at the crossroads: a biosemiotic and biopolitic appraisal." Paper delivered at the 2023 Gathering of Biosemiotics, August 2, 2023, at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
•  “Cina’s Calling on China in the Cultural Revolution: A Semiotic Analysis.” Paper delivered at the Contemporary Arts in China-A Comparative Semiotic Overview-International Symposium, 25^th-26^thSeptember 2018, at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
• 《<会饮>篇与<裴德诺>篇的“精神导引”与巴尔特的“色情修辞学”》，“古典诗学文献的当代诠释”工作坊，台北：台湾大学，2017 年6 月10-11 日。
•  “The Tao Te Tsing as an Architext of Semiotics.” Paper delivered at the 2016 International Symposium of Language and Semiotics, 25^th-27^thNovember 2016, at the Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
•  “‘Umwelt’ as a Taoist Female Principle: Re-reading the Tao Te Tsing.” Paper delivered at the Sixteenth Annual Gatherings in Biosemiotics, 4th -8th July 2016, at the Charles University in Prague, Republic of Cezch.
• “The Legacy of Émile Benveniste in Roland Barthes’ Representation of Self and Other.” Paper delivered at the International Colloquium “Émile Benveniste, la croisée des disciplines”, 3^rd-4^thJune 2016 at the University of Calgary, Canada. 
• 《罗兰·巴尔特对日本和中国的“自我反射式”书写：记忆、想象与文化符号的再表述》，第二届海峡两岸青年学者符号学论坛，台北：台湾大学，2013 年11 月17 日。
•  “Juri Loman’s Communication Model and Roland Barthes’s Representations of Self and Other.” Paper presented at the 2013 Tartu Summer School of Semiotics, 18th -23rd August 2013 at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
• 《罗兰·巴尔特书写中国的模态：一个格雷马斯话语符号学的研究》，第一届海峡两岸青年学者符号学论坛，上海：复旦大学，2013 年4 月26 日。
•  “Aspects of the Semiotics of Translation: Is There A ‘New’ Paradigm Shift in Translation Studies?” Paper presented at the 11th Congress of the IASS on 7th October 2012, at Nanjing Normal University, China.

• 《瘟疫与他者：一个神话学研究》，神话学与反种族主义高端论坛，2020年11月14日，上海交通大学，上海。
• “The Semiology of City's Discourse." Paper delivered at the Workshop of the Cultural Semiotics, 23rd April 2019, at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
• 《从语言符号学的意识形态批判走向意识形态符号学》，第十三届全国语言与符号学研讨会，2018年10月19-21日，同济大学，上海。
  
• 《罗兰·巴尔特的跨语言学设想》，法国当代文学研究研讨会暨纪念罗兰•巴特百年诞辰学术研讨会，北京：北京外国语大学，2015 年6 月26-27 日。
• 《论罗兰·巴尔特话语符号学的渊源、成型、反思与批判性实践：以话语问题为核心》，第12 届上海高校比较文学博士生学术论坛，上海：华东师范大学，2014 年10 月26 日。
• 《论罗兰·巴尔特话语符号学的渊源、成型、反思与批判性实践》，第三届全国中文学科博士生论坛，广州：中山大学，2014 年08 月30 日。
•  “Juri Loman’s Communication Model and Roland Barthes’s Representations of Self and Other”，2014 年上海比较文学学会年会，上海：上海师范大学，2014 年07 月5 日。
• 《罗兰·巴尔特与中国：一个巴尔特符号学的文本实验》，第10届上海高校比较文学博士生学术论坛，上海：复旦大学，2012 年12 月8 日。
• 《从语言符号学的意识形态批判走向意识形态符号学》，第13届全国语言与符号学研讨会，上海：同济大学，2018年10月19-21日。

Lectures

•  “Laozi as an Architext of Semiotics.” Lecture delivered at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the Charles University, May 15, 2017, Prague, Cezch.
• ”Reading Chinese Anti-COVID-19 Pandemic Narratives on Facemasks as the Art of Disaster Governance: A Semiotic and Biopolitical Survey". Lecture delivered online for graduate students from Jinan University, Guangzhou, July 11, 2020.

Translations

• [爱沙尼亚] 尤里·洛特曼：《文化与爆炸》，中国社科文献出版社，即将出版。
• [比利时]安德烈·勒菲维尔：《走向一种综合理论的翻译文本》，韩蕾译，见：杨乃乔主编：《比较诗学读本（西方卷）》，北京：首都师范大学出版社，2014，第272-283页。
•  [爱沙尼亚]皮特·托洛普：《走向翻译符号学》，韩蕾译，见：杨乃乔主编：《比较诗学读本（西方卷）》，北京：首都师范大学出版社，2014，第350-366页。