Song Huang

Spring 2026 Office Hours

Monday and Wednesday, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
NCH 342

My research focuses on Asian Francophone literature, dance and performance studies, semiotics, and postcolonial theory. I examine how literary and choreographic forms from Asia engage global aesthetic systems to produce polysemic meaning.

Dissertation

Reading Between Systems: Polysemic Signs and Plurilingual Meaning in Text and Performance
This project studies how Asian Francophone texts and Chinese ballets challenge monolingual and monocultural models of expression by layering signs across linguistic and bodily registers. Drawing from kinesemiotics, double indexation, and dynamic inheritance, I explore how texts and performances speak across cultural boundaries.

Research Interests

Asian Francophone literature; Chinese dance and ballet; semiotics and kinesemiotics; plurilingualism; postcolonial theory; K-pop and gender/queerness; chuānyuè (time-travel fiction); minor transnationalism; voice and address.

Education

University of Virginia — PhD in French Language and Literature, 2024–present
Sorbonne University — MA in Comparative Literature, 2019–2021; BA in Applied Literature, 2016–2019

Publications

“Beyond Exoticism: Alonzo King’s Scheherazade, Angelin Preljocaj’s The Nights, and the Transformation of Orientalist Ballet.” Dance Chronicle (AHCI; online ahead of print), 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2025.2604901.
Additional publications forthcoming in French Forum, European Drama and Performance Studies, and Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire.

Service

Community Engagement Representative, Department of French, University of Virginia, 2025–2026
Panel Chair, RMMLA 2026 “Asian Drama and Performance” (Ogden)
Panel Chair, PAMLA 2026 “Asian American Literary & Cultural Studies” (Seattle)