Zhu Wenjun

Wenjun Zhu (June) is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her doctoral research explores the sculpturalization of Samuel Beckett’s theatre and television plays, focusing on their remediation of and intermedial references to the plastic arts.

She holds a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Nanjing University and an MA in Comparative and World Literature from Fudan University (China). She has participated in conferences organized by the Institute for World Literature and the International Comparative Literature Association (2015–2017), as well as the 3rd International Conference of Young Researchers on Theatre Studies (2018) and the 1st International Arts Conference of “Contemporary Playwrighting: Developments, Challenges and Themes” in Vilnius (2022).

Her peer-reviewed article “Bodies in Samuel Beckett’s Theatre from the Perspective of Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures” appeared in the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (2020). She has also published “The Tendency of Sculpturalization in Samuel Beckett’s Revised Stage Writing” in Creating for the Stage and Other Spaces: Questioning Practices and Theories (2021), and “A Study on The Travel Journal and Pictures: Danlin Li’s Image of Foreign Lands and Cultures” in the Studia Imagologica series (Brill, 2022). She contributed the chapter “The Detour Around Censorship: Private Theatres and Independent Performance Groups in Guangzhou, China” to the Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship (2024).

Alongside her academic work, she is also active as a playwright, director, and actress.