Profile

Liu Yayue earned her Ph.D. in Literature from Peking University (PKU) in 2020. She was subsequently appointed as Lecturer and then Associate Professor at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE, 2020-2025), before joining the Department of Russian at PKU in August 2025. Her research has resulted in over 20 publications, including 10 sole-authored articles in CSSCI-indexed journals (three of which are reprinted by the RDFC). She has led one National Social Science Fund Youth Project and one Ministry of Education Annual Country and Regional Studies Project, in addition to contributing to one National Social Science Fund Major Project.

Educational Experience

Ph.D. in Russian Language and Literature, Peking University (2016-2020)

M.A. in Russian Language and Literature, Shanghai International Studies University (2013-2016)

B.A. in Russian Language and Literature, Shanghai International Studies University (2009-2013)

Work Experience

Associate Professor (Tenure-track), Department of Russian, Peking University (Aug 2025 - Present)

Associate Professor, Department of Russian, University of International Business and Economics (Jan 2024 - Jul 2025)

Lecturer, Department of Russian, University of International Business and Economics (Aug 2020 - Dec 2023)

Research Interests

Russian Literature and Culture; Russian Intellectual History

Teaching Courses

Basic Russian (Parts I, II, III, IV)

Selected Readings in Russian Literature (Parts I & II)

Selected Publications

[1] “The ‘Fires’ in Demons: Russian Nihilism and Its Eschatological Roots.” Foreign Literature Studies (CSSCI), no. 1, 2025, pp. 129-140. [In Chinese] (Reprinted in full in RDFC Foreign Literature Studies, no. 6, 2025).

[2] “Reconstructing the Russian Historical Discourse: Studies of K. Aksakov since the Ukraine Crisis.” Russian Studies (CSSCI Extended), no. 5, 2023, pp. 158-192. [In Chinese]

[3] “Dismantling and Remolding a ‘Myth’: Contemporary Russian Studies of Belinsky.” Russian Studies (CSSCI Extended), no. 3, 2022, pp. 170-200. [In Chinese]

[4] “The ‘History Boom’ in Russian Literature.” Cross-Cultural Dialogue, no. 45, 2021, pp. 277-292. (CSSCI Edited Volume). [In Chinese]

[5] “From ‘God-like’ to ‘Co-divine’: The Gnostic Anthropology in Russian Folk Orthodoxy.” World Religious Cultures (CSSCI), no. 3, 2021, pp. 39-46. [In Chinese]

[6] “‘Boots Are Better than Pushkin’: The Ethical Origins of Pisarev's View on Literature and Art.” Foreign Literature Review (CSSCI), no. 2, 2021, pp. 192-215. [In Chinese] (Reprinted in full in RDFC Literary Theory, no. 9, 2021).

[7] “Bakunin and His Philosophy in the Eyes of Contemporary Russian Philosophers.” Chinese Russian Language Teaching (CSSCI Extended), no. 2, 2021, pp. 59-71. [In Chinese]

[8] “The ‘Bible’ of Folk Orthodoxy: An Analysis of the Structure and Ideology of The Dove Book.” Russian Studies (CSSCI), no. 4, 2019, pp. 171-208. [In Chinese]

[9] “The Worldview of the Spiritual Verse ‘The Dove Book’ and Its Potential Influence on the Russian Sophiology of the Silver Age.” *Literature and Religious-Philosophical Thought of the Late 19th–First Third of the 20th Century*, edited by E.A. Takho-Godi, Vodolei Publishers, 2018, pp. 380-390. [In Russian]

[10] “The Choice Between Earthly and Divine: Reinterpreting ‘Oblomovism’.” Chinese Russian Language Teaching (CSSCI Extended), no. 3, 2018, pp. 59-67. [In Chinese]

[11] “An Analysis of the Eschatological Thought in the Bezpopovtsy of the Russian Old Believers.” Russian Studies (CSSCI), no. 4, 2017, pp. 82-104. [In Chinese] (Reprinted in full in RDFC World History, no. 2, 2018).

Research Projects

As Principal Investigator (PI)

1. National Social Science Fund Youth Project: "A History of Russian Nihilist Thought and Its Implications for China" (Project No. 23CSS016). (In Progress)

2. Ministry of Education Annual Project on Country and Regional Studies: "Pathways, Effectiveness, and Implications for China of the Reconstruction of the Historical Discourse in Contemporary Russia" (Project No. 2022-N44). (Completed)

3. University of International Business and Economics Faculty Startup Project: "A Study of Russian Folk Religious Thought from the 17th to 19th Centuries" (Project No. 20QD11). (Completed)

As Participant

1. National Social Science Fund Major Project: "Studies in Contemporary Russian Philosophy" (Project No. 18ZDA018). (In Progress)

Overseas Experience

1. Jun 2018 — Presented a paper at the international conference "Literature and Religious-Philosophical Thought of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Commemorating the 165th Anniversary of Vladimir Solovyov's Birth" in Moscow.

2. Apr - Jun 2018 — Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University.

3. Mar - Jun 2015 — Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Philology, Saint Petersburg State University.

4. Sep 2011 - Jun 2012 — Exchange Student under the China Scholarship Council program at the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute.