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Chloé Luu

Ph.D. Student
Chloé Luu
Email coluu@usc.edu

Biography

Chloé LUU (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at USC, with a designated emphasis in French and Francophone Studies. Born and raised in France, she previously graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon with a Master in Social Sciences. 

Her dissertation examines Asian diasporas in France and the French-occupied Pacific, investigating the notion of an instrumentality of Asian racialization in racist/capitalist modes of differentiation. While beginning with the recent Asian antiracist formations that came into being following the killings of two Chinese immigrants in France 2016 and 2017, her project is an attempt to complicate and trace the gaps in the constructed genealogy of French Asian migration and resistance —the history of Asian indentured labor in the French colonial ‘overseas’ being one of these blind spots. 

She is a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow. Her research has also received support from the USC Graduate School, East Asian Studies Center, Transpacific Studies Center and the Department of French and Italian. 

Education

  • MA Ecole Normale Superieure

  • Research Keywords

    Sociology of Race, French Asian literature and cinema, Global Asias and Asian Settler Colonialism, French Empire

  • Journal Article

    • (2022). Un nouvel antiracisme asiatique ? Émergence et structuration de nouvelles pratiques de luttes des personnes perçues comme asiatiques en France”. Les Cahiers de la LCD. Vol. 1 (15), pp. 65 – 83. On Cairn
    • (2024). “Jaune à l’extérieur et blanche à l’intérieur”: French Asian ‘Post-Migratory’ Narratives, National Belonging, and Capital Erasures. L’Esprit Créateur. Vol. 64 (1)