Received Sylff fellowship in 2024
Academic Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Surinderpal Kaur
Current affiliation: Universiti Malaya
Zhang Yue is a fast-track PhD candidate at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. Her research centers on the discursive construction of (in)security, with a particular interest in how fear and threat are produced, legitimized, and circulated in contemporary public discourse. Her work engages with questions of securitization in relation to right-wing populism and sports mega-events. More recently, she has extended this research into multimodal communication, investigating how linguistic, visual, and other semiotic resources interact in shaping perceptions of (in)security. Taken together, these strands explore how security discourse shapes power relations, collective identities, and boundaries of belonging.
