Job title：Professor
Field of study：English and American literature, and Western literary theory
Posts Held:
Supervisor for MA students. Director of SMU ResearchInstitute for Contemporary Critical Theories.
Education:
Undergraduate studies at Hebei University (Mar. 1978 – Feb. 1982);
MA studies at Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute (Sept. 1984—June1986).
Doctoral Studiesfor English and American literature at Nanjing University (2002-2006).
Research Interests:
English andAmerican literature and Western literary critical theory.
Publications:
More than 30 papers published in noted academic journals such as Foreign Literature Review, Hebei Xuekan, and Jounal of Tsinghua University as well as 13 books including 3translation works and some dictionaries, such as An English-Chinese Wordbank of Scientific and Technological Terms (four volumes, 24 million words), AnEnglish-Chinese Dictionary for Abbreviations and Acronyms (three volumes,13 million word), Extensive Reading forEnglish Majors of Colleges (four volumes, 1.5 million words), American Scene by Henry James (a translation), Moby Dick by Herman Melville (atranslation), Post-colonialism byPostcolonial Theorist Robert Young (atranslation), and I. A. Richards andChinese Culture: Dialogue between Chinese and Western Cultures and ItsInfluence which had been collected by the libraries of Harvard, Yale, Emory,Pennsylvania, Michigan, London, Hong Kong University, etc, up to the end of2013.
Research Projects:
An Expenditure Budget Project of Shanghai Municipal EducationCommission, 2008.
A National Social Science Post-Funded Project of China, 2010.
A Ministry of Education’s Humanities and Social Science Planned Project,2012.
A Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Research Innovation KeyProject, 2014.
Awards:
Second Prize ofthe Fifth National Outstanding Scientific and Technical Books, 1990.
Third Prize ofthe Eighth Excellence of Social Science Achievements of Hebei Province, 2002.
Third Prize ofthe Tenth Excellence of Social Science Achievements of Shanghai City, 2010.
Second Prize ofthe Twelfth Excellence of Social Science Achievements of Shanghai City, 2014.
Academic Activities:
Lecturing at over 10 higher-education institutionslike North University of China, Hebei University, Hebei Normal University,offering such courses as Contemporary literary Critical Theories. Visiting scholar at ManchesterUniversity (2004-05) and Queensland University of Technology (2012).
