Positions: Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Foreign Languages Department, Henan University. Post-doctoral instructor and PhD supervisor. Member of the Board of Journal of Henan University. Member of Toni Morrison Society of America. Vice Chairman of China English Literature Society. Chairman of Henan Foreign Literatures Society. Deputy to the People’s Congress of Henan Province. Vice Chairman of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of Kaifeng City. Vice Chairman of Jiu San Society of Henan Province and Chairman of Jiu San Society of Kaifeng City (Jiu San Society is one of the eight Democratic Parties in China)

 

Education

Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Columbia University, America, from Sept. 2009 to Aug. 2010

Senior Visiting Scholar to Cambridge University, England, from April.1998 to March.1999

Beijing Foreign Studies University, English Literature, PhD from Sept.1992 to July.1995

Henan University, English Literature, MA from Oct.1982 to Dec. 1985

Kaifeng Normal University, Chinese Literature, BA from Dec. 1978 to July 1981

 

Courses taught: History of British Literature; Selected Readings in British Literature; History of American Literature; Selected Readings in American Literature; History of the English Novel; Theory of the Novel; Narratology; 20th Century Literary Theory; Translation between English and Chinese; An Introduction to British and American Culture, etc. Having given lectures on literature to undergraduates, graduates and PhD candidates in Shandong University, Qingdao University, Xuzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou University, Henan University of Agriculture, Xi’an Science and Technology University of Electronics, etc.

 

Publications

Books

Translation of J. Dath’s fiction Olympia 420 BC, Lijiang Press 2008;

Translation of Gregory Benford’s fiction Timescape, Chongqing Press 2008

Remembrance of Days in Cambridge, Henan People’s Press 2007

A Brief History of English Literature, Henan University Press 2006

Selected Readings in English Literature, Henan University Press 2006

Comments on the Famous Novels by the Famous Novelists, China Social Sciences Press 2004

A History of the English Novel, China Social Sciences Press 2004

English Monarchy in Historical Literature, China Social Sciences Press 2004

Translation of S. Freud’s A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Xinjiang Science and Technology Press 2003

Translation of Evelyn Waugh’s fiction Decline and Fall, Yilin Press 2003

Translation of Evelyn Waugh’s fiction Scoop, Yilin Press 2001

Translation of Emily Bronte’s fiction Wuthering Heights, Xinjiang Youth Press 1999

The Art of Evelyn Waugh, Henan University Press 1997

Translation of Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize, Henan Education Press 1992

 

Articles

Edward Said’s Theory of the Intellectual and His Practice as a Public Intellectual, Contemporary Foreign Literature No. 4. 2008

Theme and Narrative of Wuthering Heights, Foreign Literature Studies No. 3.2008

The Union of Soul and Form―Lukacs’ Early Thoughts on Literature and Arts, Journal of Henan University No.3. 2008 （cited by Literary Theory No.8 2008, photocopy center of Renmin University of China）

The Three Forms of Historical Fiction―On Traditional, Modern and Postmodern Historical Novels, Journal of Zhejiang Normal University, No.1.2006 (cited by Literary Theory No.6 2006, photocopy center of Renmin University of China)

On the Narrative Features of Ford’s The Good Soldier, Foreign Literature No.4. 2006

On the Narrative Features of Byatt’s Possession, Journal of Ludong University, No.6, 2006

The Aestheticism in Nabokov’s Lolita, World Literature Review, No.4, 2006

Female Pathos in Wordsworth, Journal of Shangqiu Normal University, No.6, 2006

Language, Destiny and History―On Gibbon’s A Scot’s Quair, Journal of Zhengzhou University, No.6,2002

Narrative Features of Toni Morrison’s Novels, PLA University of Foreign Languages, No.1, 2002

Conrad’s Artistic View and Practice as seen in His Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus, Foreign Literature Review, No.2, 2001 (awarded third class prize by Henan Social Sciences Association)

On Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes, Journal of Henan University, No.1, 2001

John Ruskin’s Criticism on Art, Journal of Henan University, No.1, 1998

Some Characteristics of the English Catholic Novel, PLA University of Foreign Languages, No.3, 1997

On the Gothic Fiction, Journal of Shanghai Normal University, No.2, 1997

The Features of the Gothic Fiction, Journal of Henan Normal University, No.2, 1997

Walter Pater’s Aestheticism as Reflected in His Renaissance, Journal of Henan University, No.6, 1996 (cited by Foreign Literature Studies No.4 1997, photocopy center of Renmin University of China )

Narrative Features of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Journal of Zhengzhou University, No.5,1996

The Ironic Art of Evelyn Waugh, Foreign Literature Review, No.2 1996

English Novel in the 1980s, Journal of Henan University, No.4, 1995

A Thematic Exploration of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Journal of Henan University, No.2, 1992

Dualism in Joseph Conrad and His Works, Journal of Henan University, No.2, 1990. (cited by Foreign Literature Studies No.6 1990, photocopy center of Renmin University of China)