Mission
Based on President Xi's theory of literature and art, and under the overall perspective of understanding contemporary China, the Institute focuses on foreign and comparative literature and world literature, focuses on the classics, traces hotspots, expands horizons, serves the national strategy, enhances the mutual understanding of civilizations, and contributes academic wisdom to the creation of a community of destiny of mankind in the field of foreign and comparative literature research.
Function
The Institute promotes the integration of disciplines, gives full play to the advantages of foreign languages, and makes its own research characteristics. Its functions include: serving the teaching and research of the School of Foreign Languages, especially focusing on the training of doctoral and master's degree students in the field of foreign literature; creating more platforms of external exchanges for the faculty and students; and organizing academic conferences, lectures, salons and seminars.
Faculty (19 in total):
Qingqi Wei, Lanxiang Wu, Meiqin Li, Jinjin Wu, Li Yang, Yonghui Hu, Yuping Wang, Ying Ke, Litian Zhu, Xiumei Song, Xinxin Jiang, Dexu Zhang, Jing Yu, Yuan Tian, Yishuang Guo, Ningyue Li, Xiyi Xu, Haonan Chi, Juan Zhong.
Director: Qingqi Wei;
Deputy Director: Lanxiang Wu
Research focus
Foreign literary studies and translation in the age of artificial intelligence;
African area studies and literary studies;
Reception and reconstruction of foreign literature and literary theory in China.
Main scientific research achievements in recent years:
Research projects:
1. ‘Research on the Relationship between Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature’ (Key Project of National Social Science Foundation), Yang Li
2. ‘An Examination of the Historical Events of Chinese and Foreign Exchange’ (Chinese Academic Foreign Translation Project of the National Social Science Foundation), Wu Lanxiang
3. ‘A Study of Political Writing in South African English Literature’ (National Social Science Foundation Program), Li Meiqin
4. ‘Study on the Influence of Vanguard Painting School in 20th Century American Poetry’ (Project of National Social Science Foundation), Zhu Litian
5. ‘Study on the Urban Landscape of Dreiser's Novels’ (National Social Science Foundation Program), Wang Yuping
6. ‘A Brief History of Chinese Literary Images’ (Project of Chinese Academic Foreign Translation of the National Social Science Foundation), Wei Qingqi
7. ‘Research on Spatial Narrative’ (Chinese Academic Translation Program of the National Social Science Foundation), Yang Li
Representative research:
Essays
| Title | Author's name | Author's type | Journal of publication | Year of publication and volume | Index |
1 | The Female Body, Christianity, and Colonial Modernity: The Representation of Foot-bound Women in Alicia Little’s Travelogues | Haonan Chi | first author | Critical Arts | DOI10.1080/02560046.2024.2361000 | SSCI |
2 | Empowered Shadow: Absent Gypsies, Immunity and the Event of Novel in Far from the Madding Crowd | Jing Yu | first author | Pacific Coast Philology | forthcoming |
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3 | Globalisation, Identity and the Production of Cosmopolitanism - Re-reading Jude the Obscure | Jing Yu | first author | Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Society Edition) | forthcoming |
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4 | The Inability to Mourn: Representation of Collective Psychology in the “We”-Narrative of Yiyun Li’s “Immortality” | Jie Feng | first author | Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie | 2024,142(1) |
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5 | Demon Lore in Japanese Plague Narratives | Weiwei Lu | first author | 《National Arts》 | 2023(1) | CSSCI |
6 | Is literary universality a lie? From the plagiarism furore in Man's Most Secret Memory | TianyuWang | first author | 《Study of the Trends of Foreign Literature》 | 2023(6) | CSSCI |
7 | African Literature in English in the Perspective of the Genealogy of World Literature | Meiqin Li | first author | Comparative Literature in China | 2023(1) | CSSCI |
8 | Fading - Colouring - Fusing - On the Construction of Cultural Identity in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child | Meiqin Li | first author | Contemporary Foreign Literature | 2023,44(2) | CSSCI |
9 | Baldwin's ‘ Literary Patricide’ and the African American Literary Turn | Meiqin Li | first author | English and American Literature Studies Series | 2023(1) | CSSCI |
10 | «Рецепция концепции Л.Н. Гумилёва в русской литературе рубежа XX–XXI вв.» | Qin Li | first author | Voprosy Istorii | 2023(2-2) | A&HCI |
11 | The Dance of the Poisonous Spider and the Community of Women: Multidimensional Writing in Remember the Tarantella | Ying Ke | first author | Studies in English Literature | 2023,10 |
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12 | Ecofeminist Echo: Matthews' Creative Rewriting of A White Heron | Qingqi Wei | first author | Frontiers of Literary Theory | 2023(2) |
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13 | The Mythopoetics of Tracing Spirituality and Transcendence: The Ethnographic Science Fiction Writing of Ursula Le Guin | Jie Wang | first author | English and American Literature Studies Series | 2022(1) | CSSCI |
14 | The Critique of American Reality Behind Science Fiction - With Oates' New Book, Hazards of Time Travel | Qingqi Wei | first author | Study of the Trends of Foreign Literature | 2022(2) | CSSCI |
15 | From Film to Novel: On the Transmedia Narrative of A Pale View of Hills | Li Yang | first author | Journal of Hunan University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition) | 2022,25(2) | CSSCI |
16 | Dilemmas and Ways Out of African Feminist Writing - From Une si longue lettre | TianyuWang | first author | Study of the Trends of Foreign Literature | 2022(5) | CSSCI |
17 | Radical and unfinished: a study of left-wingness in Rachel Carson's environmental literature | Qingqi Wei | first author | Study of the Trends of Foreign Literature | 2022(1) | CSSCI |
18 | On the Writing of War in Hosseini's Novel A Thousand Splendid Suns | Yuping Wang | first author | Journal of Hunan University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition) | 2021(2) | CSSCI |
19 | Patriarchy, Capitalism, Nation-State and Japanese Women - Chizuko Ueno's Theoretical Construction of Feminology | Weiwei Lu | first author | Open Times | 2021(4) | CSSCI |
20 | Ecological Lamentations of the Voiceless - Reading Bitter Sea Pure Land: My Minamata Disease | Weiwei Lu | first author | Journal of Southeast University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) | 2021(5) | CSSCI |
21 | Melodrama and Cosmopolitanism in The Trumpet Major | Jing Yu | first author | Essays in Criticism | 2021,71(2) | A&HCI |
Monographs and translations
Name | Book Title | Type （Monograph/Translation/Textbook） | Publisher | Date | |
1 | Dexu Zhang | Practices of Selfhood | Translation | Nanjing University Press | 2024 |
2 | Jing Yu | Local-Cosmopolitanism in Hardy's Novels and Intercultural Research | Monograph | Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press | 2023 |
3 | Si Cheng | Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger | Translation | Nova Press | 2022 |
4 | Weiwei Lu | Woman Thinking | Translation | Zhejiang University Press | 2022 |
5 | Ningyue Li | L'écran global：Du cinéma au smartphone | Translation | Nanjing University Press | 2022 |
6 | Xinyu Cao | An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man | Translation | Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press | 2021 |
7 | Jiayun Ren | One Man's Last Journey | Translation | Zhejiang University Press | 2021 |
8 | Qingqi Wei | Cakes and Ale | Translation | Yunnan People's Publishing House | 2021 |
9 | Qingqi Wei | Hazards of Time Travel | Translation | Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House | 2021 |
10 | Qingqi Wei | When Women Were Birds | Translation | Southwest China Normal University Press | 2021 |
Contact Information:
Contact person：Qingqi Wei
Phone number：13851660135
email： njwqq@yeah.net
