���Vivien Jiaqian Zhu earned an A.B. (distinction) in comparative literature and Chinese literature, with a minor in history of art from UC Berkeley in 2018. 
She was a recipient of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Award in Comparative Literature, and a Regent's Scholar by the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley to pursue a Ph.D. degree. 
Her dissertation investigates the expression of self, the interior space/interiority, and architectural tropes in literature and art. 
Other research interests include relational aesthetics, fin-de-si��cle Vienna and epigraphy. 
From 2020 to 2021, she joined Stanford's Inter-University Center at Yokohama Japan as a Nippon Foundation Fellow. 
She also has an offer to commence a visiting scholar/Ph.D. joint position at Stanford University in fall 2022, which is part of an exchange program for scholars among Stanford University, UC Berkeley and UCSF. 
In 2024, she was appointed as a Mitsubishi Research Fellow to study early modern Japanese palaeography at University of Cambridge. 
In terms of professional writing, she serves as an editor for the The Pegasus Review at Stanford University School of Medicine, and as a columnist for the newspaper The Stanford Daily. 
Outside of Stanford, she serves as a peer reviewer for the Cambridge Educational Research E-Journal in the Faculty of Education. 
She also serves on the Editorial Board for International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles, Intellect Ltd. 
Her article ���I Dwell in Possibility:��� The Poetics of Space in the Works of 1980s Japanese Avant-garde Fashion Designers is the winner of ACA Best Researcher Award in History of Art, International Academic Awards, 2024, and listed for SSRN eJournal Top Papers - Art History eJournal Top Ten; Arts Administration, Museum Studies, Conservation & Restoration eJournal Top Ten; Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art Journal Top Ten; Anthropology of Kinship Top Ten; Gender, the Body & Sexuality eJournal Top Ten; Art Law eJournal Top Ten; Dance, Fashion, Theater & Performance Studies eJournal Top Ten; Poetry & Poetics eJournal Top Ten; Rhetoric & Public Discourse eJournal Top Ten; Visual, Performing & Fine Arts Education eJournal Top Ten; Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal Top Ten. 
Her first book, Exploring Art, Knowledge and Movement in Japanese Fashion (Eliva Press, 2025), tells a philosophical story of the Greek poein, avant-garde Japanese fashion designers, the Paris high fashion scene, and Chinese classics from early modern to contemporary times. 
It traverses the terrain of history of art, performance studies, religion, and the eighteenth-century literary masterpiece The Dream of Red Chamber (Hongloumeng ���������, Story of the Stone ���������).