Lanxiang Wu
Professor of British & American Literature
Email: wulanxiangjoy@126.com
Education:
Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, Nanjing University, 2007
M.A. in English Language and Literature, Jilin University, 1995
B.A. in English Language and Literature, Jilin University, 1992
Teaching:
2015-present, Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University.
2006-2015, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University.
1998-2006, Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University.
1995-1998, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Southeast University.
Publications:
Books:
Gender, Race and Space: A Cultural Study of Edith Wharton's Travel Writing, SoutheastUniversity Press, 2009.
Chinese translation of Doris Lessing's novel The Cleft, co-translated with Litian Zhu, Nanjing University Press, 2008.
Access to New Topics, co-edited with Tianni Luo and Yonghui Hu, Shanghai Foreign Language Audiovisual Publishing House, 2006.
Essays
“From Laws of Cultural Evolution to Cultural Hermeneutics: Mark Twain’s Reflection and Criticism of Western Civilization”, Nanjing Journal of Social Sciences 9(2014).
“Repressed Sexuality and a Sick Self in Augus Wilson’s ‘A Little Companion’”, Foreign Literature 5(2012).
“The Linear Time and Feminine Time in Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time”, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages 4(2012).
“The Industrial Civilization that was Snuffed out: Reform and Revelation in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, Foreign Literature Review 2(2012).
“Gender Anxiety in the Public Space: The Use of Pronouns in Edith Wharton’s Travel Books”, Foreign Literature Review 4(2010).
“Racism in Mark Twain’s Early Travelogues”, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages 4(2010).
“Mark Twain’s Racial Outlook as Exemplified in Pudd’nhead Wilson”, Foreign Literature Review 3(2009).
“Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Criticism of Scientism”, Foreign Literature Review 4(2006).
“Violence in Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile”, Contemporary Foreign Literature 3(2005).
“Polyphone and Dialogue in Literature Teaching Class”, Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal 1(2005).
“The Burden of Guilt and Loneliness: A Psychological Study of Mary Tyrone’s Dope Addiction”, Journal of Southeast University 6(2004).
“A Feminist Reading of Eugene O’Neil’s The Iceman Cometh”, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages 4(2004).
Research Projects:
“Exploring Mark Twain’s Science Fiction”, 2015-2017, sponsored by Southeast University Research Fund.
“A Study of Genetic Abnormalities in the Contemporary English Fiction”, 2014-2016, sponsored by Southeast University Research Fund.
“Science and Ethics: A Study of Classical American Writers”, 2012-2016, sponsored by Chinese Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund.
“Gender and Space: A Study of Modern American Travel Writings”, 2006-2008, sponsored by Education Commission of Jiangsu Province.
Honors and Awards:
Nanjing Xincheng Science and Technology Parks Corporation Excellent Teacher Award, Southeast University Education Foundation, 2011.
Xu Shanglong Excellent Teacher Award, Southeast University Education Foundation, 2007.
The Second Prize of Teaching Contest, Southeast University, 2003.
