Courses Taught:  Intensive English Reading, American Literature, Modern and Contemporary English Literatures, EST Translation

Research Interests:  Literature of the American South, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Criticism

Professional Experience:

Aug. 2013―Present: Professor, MA Supervisor, English Department, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University

Feb. 2013―Present: Associate Chair of English Department, CFLC, Xiamen U

Feb. 2008―Jul. 2013: Associate Professor, MA Supervisor, CFLC, Xiamen U

Aug. 2006-Jan. 2007: Guest Professor, Mingdao University, Taiwan

Dec. 2005―Jan. 2008: Associate Professor, MA Supervisor, English Department, College of Foreign Languages, Nankai University

Aug. 1998―Dec. 2005: Lecturer, English Department, CFL, Nankai U

Jan. 1995―Jul. 1998: Assistant Lecturer, English Department, CFL, Nankai U

Jul. 1993―Dec. 1994: Assistant Lecturer, Department of English for Foreign Trade, Tianjin Institute of Foreign Trade

Educational Background:

Ph.D. in American Literature, Peking University, 2005

M.A. in English and American Literature, Nankai University, 1999

B.A. in English for Science and Technology, Tianjin University, 1993

B.E. in Engineering Economics, Tianjin University, 1993

Visiting Scholar, Research on “Gender and Southern Modernity,” Beatrice Bain Research Group, UC Berkeley, April-September 2013

Other:

Third Prize for Chinese English Translation of Hus Kun’s “The Kitchen,” China International Translation Contest 2013 (hosted by State Council Information Office, Chinese Writers Association and China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration), August 2014

Annual Award for Excellent Research Work, funded by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Xiamen University, April 2013

Second Prize, Excellent Paper Award, The 9th East China Foreign Languages Forum (hosted by East China Foreign Languages and Literature Association), November 2012

Excellent Paper Award, The 1st Cross-Strait Symposium of Foreign Language Teaching and Research (hosted by Fujian Foreign Languages and Literature Association), December 2011

First Prize, Excellent Paper Award, The 8th East China Foreign Languages Forum (hosted by East China Foreign Languages and Literature Association), November 2011

Excellent Paper Award, The 14th Annual Conference of China Association for the Study of American Literature, October 2008

“World Literature Cup” Literary Translation Award (hosted by World Literature), September 2004

First Prize, The 11th Han Suyin Award for Young Translators (hosted by Chinese Translation Journal and Translators Association of China), November 1999

Excellent Translation Award, The 3rd Ge Baoquan Literary Translation Competition (hosted by Translations journal), September 1998

First Prize, Excellent Degree Thesis Award, Nankai University, September 1999

First Prize, The 1st Graduate Students’ Translation Competition of Tianjin (hosted by Tianjin Translators Association), March 1997