Lecturer: Professor Duan Bo
Time: December 23, Wednesday, 2020, 14:00,
Location: Room 326 (Simultaneous Interpretation Room), Foreign Languages Building
Lecture Introduction:
American author Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is a classic text that examines the U.S. struggle for the geopolitical map of the Pacific, and the novel is particularly active in the ideological construction of the “Pacific Empire”. Melville depicts the historical path of the U.S. through the glorious whaling narrative of the 19th century and draws on the “blank” spatial representation of the South Pacific to map the geopolitical landscape and power of the United States in the Pacific.
Lecturer Profile:
Duan Bo, Ph.D., is a professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University, a doctoral supervisor at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and deputy director of the Center for World Maritime Literature and Culture at Ningbo University. His research includes English and American literature, English maritime fiction, and Western literary theory.
He visited the College of New South Sydney, Australia in 2005 and Emory University, the USA in 2014-2015 with a grant from the China Scholarship Fund. He is also a correspondence reviewer for the National Social Science Fund of China and the Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education, as well as an anonymous reviewer for journals such as Foreign Literature Studies and Journal of the PLA Foreign Language Institute.
At present, he has published nearly 30 papers on the theme of “British and American Maritime Literature and Culture” in journals such as Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Foreign Literature Review, Foreign Literature Research, Journal of Capital Normal University, etc. He has also completed two academic books.
