Professor and doctoral supervisor in English Language and Literature,

Research Fields:

Her research has been focused on Deleuzian literary criticism, and the application of his literary theory into the study and analysis of English and American literary works. Currently, she is particularly interested in studying contemporary Indian English novels, especially those works which won Booker Prize or made the long or short list.

Education:

B.A. 2003, Ph. D. 2010, Tsinghua University

Selected Publications and Research Grants:

Jing Yin has written widely on Deleuzian literary criticism and studies on Indian Booker Prize novels. Her recent articles include: “Gilles Deleuze” (Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, 2019) “From Post-colonial Literature to Event: A New Reading of Indian Booker Prize Winning Novels” (Journal of Xi’an International Studies University, 2019), “Thoughts on the Cultivation of Students’ Critical Thinking in English Teaching” (Journal of Xi’an International Studies University, 2018), “Deterritorialization, Flight and Creation: Contemporary Indian Novels in English as Minor Literature” (Foreign Literature Studies, 2017), “A Probe into the Theory of Event Literature: Reflections on the Reconstruction of Literary Studies ‘after Theory,’” (Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2017), “ The Janus Face of Desire: A Reading of The God of Small Things” (Foreign Literature, 2017), “Becoming-Animal: Becoming-Wolf in Wolf Totem” (Deleuze Studies, 2013), “Becoming” (Foreign Literature, 2013), “Literature as a Passage of Life: An Overview of Deleuze-Guattari’s Literary Critical Thought” (Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2012). Her translated works in include: Deleuze and the Political (with Zhang Jinghui, 2018), Deleuze Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization and Politics, 2017), Caravaggio (2017), The Politics of Life itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-first Century (2015), The Objects of Philosophy: A Gilles Deleuze Reader (with Chen Yongguo, 2011), An Outline of World Literature (with Chen Yongguo, 2010). Her Research Grants and Projects include: “Literature as a Passage of Life: “A Study of Indian Booker Prize Novels” (2018 Project of National Social Science Fund, 18BWW034), “A Study of Gilles Deleuze’s Literary Theory” (2011 Youth Project of Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Funding (11YJC752035), “Literature as a Passage of Life: A Study of Gilles Deleuze’s Literary Theory” (China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project, first level, No. 2013M540082), “A Study of the Possible World of English Historiographic Metafiction” (2016 Project of National Social Science Fund), “City Images in the American Literary Works in the Twentieth Century” (2015 Youth Project of National Social Science Fund), “An Ontological Study of the Context of the English Translation of Chinese Philosophical Canon” (2013 Youth Project of Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Funding) , “Modern Narratives in the Female Writers’ City Novels in the Twentieth Century” (2012 Youth Project of Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Funding).