Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture

M.A. Supervisor in English Literary Studies & Comparative Literature

Research Fields:

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel; Critical Theory; Marxist Criticism; Comparative Literary Studies and Translation. Currently working on two Chinese books: The Imagination/Simulacra of China in American Fiction, 1932-2012: A Spatial, Cultural and Historical Study and Jane Austen and the Repressed Modernity.

Education:

B.A.1996, Nankai University; M. A. 1999, Nanjing University;

Ph. D. 2011, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

Selected Publications and Research Grants:

A) Books

Capital, Culture, and the Heroine: Reconfiguring Gender in the Victorian Novel. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014. (in English)

English Literary Studies and Methodology: An Advanced Reader. Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2015. (in English & Chinese)

B) Selected Journal Articles/Book Chapters

1. “Conference Report for BAVS Glasgow Conference 2010,” British Association for Victorian Studies Winter Newsletter 2010. p. 3. (in English)

2. “Mimesis or Verisimilitude: Historical Narratives and Pearl S. Buck in China.” Review of English and American Literature Vol. 19 (2011): 157-178. (in Chinese)

3．“‘What Is Critique?’—Rethinking the Identity of Literary Critics with a Keyword from Foucault to Butler.” Foreign Literatures (Peking University) Vol. 4 (2013): 3-10. (in Chinese)

4. “The Oriental Image and Political Unconscious: On the Postmodernist Historical Narratives in Philip K. Dick,” Foreign Languages Research Vol. 2 (2014): 92-97. (in Chinese)

5. “Arnoldian Cultural Ideology and the Critique of Capital in Jude the Obscure,” Foreign Literature Review Vol. 4 (2014): 97-113. (in Chinese)

6. “A Spatial and Feminist Analysis of Ms. Gaskell’s Political Imagination in Mary Barton,” Foreign Literatures (Peking University) Vol. 1 (2015): 45-54. (in Chinese)

C) GRANTS FUNDED

1. National Endowments for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2012, by the Ministry of Education (PRC):

Project Title: A Study in the Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

March 2012-March 2015.

2. The Central Government Research Grant for the Humanities 2013:

Project Title: The Imagination of China in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

January 2013-December 2013.

3. University of Science and Technology Postgraduate Education Fund 2013:

Project Title: A Study in English Literary Studies and Methodology

December 2013-November 2015.