Name: YU Jing
Gender: F
Title: A/P
Email: 101012828@seu.edu.cn
Address:
School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University
Si Pailou2#, Nanjing
Jiangsu Province
P. R. China
INTRODUCTION
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Thomas Hardy studies, cosmopolitanism, Victorian literature and culture, feminist studies, post-colonialism
EDUCATION:
•National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
Ph.D. in English Literature, 2020.
•Sichuan University, China.
M. A., in English Language and Literature, 2012.
•Sichuan International Studies University, China.
B. A., 2009, in English Language and Literature, 2009.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
•AP, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, 2021-present:
1.Teaching:
1) B1710790: History and Culture of Australia and Canada
2) B1710760: Integrated English II
3) MS000151: Academic Writing in English
4) MS000152: Technical Communication
2.Some related administrative work:
1)I organized and delivered public speech, mainly for the undergraduate students across different disciplines, in winter school 2022 at Southeast University. The talk aimed to introduce the students overseas study opportunities in Singapore, preparations for the application and essential requirements for enrolment, etc.
2)I am responsible for organizing and inviting overseas teachers to join in co-teaching modules.
3)I am engaged in postgraduate-students’ enrolment (interview and assessment procedure).
4)Management and coordinating operations and procedures of the English-major undergraduate students’ thesis supervisions.
3.Thesis Supervision:
LI Yu (bachelor degree), “Identity and Nostalgic Complex in Diaspora Literature--Take Han Suyin’s Homesickness in A Many-Splendoured Things as An Example”, 2022.
•TA, National University of Singapore, 2015-2018, first semester of each academic year:
1.Teaching:
EN1101: An Introduction to Literary Study
•TA, School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Yunnan Normal University, 2012-2015.
1.Teaching
A0500T1011: College English I&II
2.Some administrative work
1)I supervised undergraduate students’ thesis in 2013 and 2014;
2)I instructed the National English Speech Competition at mass-selection stage in 2014;
3)Invigilation and other assessment work.
PUBLICATIONS:
Book:
•Cosmopolitanism and Transnational Communications in Thomas Hardy’s Novels, Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Science Press (SASSP), 2023.
Articles:
•“Migration and the Politics of Intersection in The Mayor of Casterbridge.” The Hardy Society Journal (summer issue 2023)
•“Melodrama and Cosmopolitanism in The Trumpet-Major.” Essays in Criticism 71, 2 (2021): 183–201.
•“‘Nothing Is Permanent but Change’: Wessex Tourism and Travel in The Woodlanders.” Thomas Hardy Journal 36 (2020): 42-64.
•“Desiring Body: Jude the Obscure and Emerging Cosmopolitanism.” The Hardy Society Journal 15, 1 (2019): 53-72.
•“From Self-Exploration to Self-Denial: An Existential Analysis of Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure.” (Chinese) Journal of Chongqing Three Gorges University 29, 146 (2013): 86-89.
•“A Post-colonial Interpretation of The Merchant of Venice: A Distorted Image of the Other.” (Chinese) Wenjiao Ziliao 11 (2010): 26-27.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AND SEMINARS:
•“The Politics of Mobility: Cosmopolitanism in Thomas Hardy’s Novels”, Revisiting the Canonical Western Writers (Face-to-Face Panel) in the Annual Meeting of Jiangsu Association of Foreign Literature Studies & Foreign Affairs Committee under Jiangsu Writers Association, Southeast University, 2023.
•“‘Too Theatrical to be Convincing’: Disturbing Voices, Patriotism and Belonging to Nowhere”, The Right to Speak (Virtual Panel) in the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Taiwan Normal University, 2022.
•“‘Now You Are My Friend’: Migration and Hybridization in The Mayor of Casterbridge”, The British Literature and Culture: Long 19th Century III (Virtual Panel) in the 118th annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, Las Vegas, 2021.
•Postgraduate seminars, The 23rd International Thomas Hardy Festival and Conference, Dorchester, UK, 2018.
•“Local and Global: Thomas Hardy, Literary Tourism and the Debatable Authenticity”, delivered in the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2017.
•“I am all the subjects that you have”: Reading Ecophobia in The Tempest, NUS Grad Students Research Day Presentation, April 25, 2016.
REASEARCH INTERETS:
•Thomas Hardy
•Cosmopolitanism & British Nineteenth-century Literature
•Cross-cultural Communications
•Post-colonialism
•Identity Studies
•Feminism
•Aesthetic Politics in Literature
AWARDS, RESEARCH GRANTS AND OTHER HOUNORS:
•2022.
Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (award NO. 3217002101A1), Southeast University, China.
•2021.
Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (award NO. 3217002101A2), Southeast University, China.
•2016.
Successful completion of Training Programme for Teaching Assistants, National University of Singapore.
•2015-2019.
Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore.
•2014.
Awarded Third in the 9th Round of Young Teacher’s Teaching Competition, Yunnan Normal University.
•2009-2011.
University Scholarship, Sichuan University.
•2009.
University Scholarship, Sichuan International Studies University.
•2009.
Certificate of Honour (Advanced Individual of Young Volunteers in the AY 2007/08), Sichuan International Studies University.
•2007.
University Scholarship, Sichuan international Studies University.
•2006.
Certificate of Honour (English volunteer during China Telecom. Biz Navigation Chongqing Station of 2006 ERKE International Women’s Tennis Series), Organizing Committee of International Women’s Tennis Series and Yuzhong District Sports Bureau of Chongqing.
