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YUAN Xuesheng

Jan 14, 2024 Yuan Xuesheng Clicks:

Name

 

Yuan Xuesheng

Degrees

PhD in Comparative Literature and World Literature, Nanjing University, China

 

MA in Comparative Literature and World Literature, Nanchang University, China

 

BA in English Language and literature, Jiangxi Normal University, China

 

Academic Publications

Monography

Franklin’s Autobiography and the American Mind. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press. 2008.

 

Book Reviews and Articles

Review of Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality and Social Justice, Life Writing, Dec. 2022.

 

Review of Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Oct. 2022.  

 

Review of Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings, Asian Studies Review, Feb. 2022.

 

The Autobiographical Writing of Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine, Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies, 2(2021), 196-209.

 

The Spatial Construction and Ethical Writing in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth”, Foreign Literature Studies, 6(2020), 62-72.

 

The Conflict and Integration of Historical Factuality and Literary Fictionality: On Lucia Boldrini’s Autobiographies of Others: Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 3(2019), 534-540.

 

An Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism, Journal of Jiangxi Normal University, 3(2015), 68-72.

 

Philip Roth, Joyce Oates, and Wendell Berry Won 2010 National Humanities Medals, World Literature Recent Developments, 1(2011), 38-39.

 

Ethical Tragedy and Identity Transformation in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, Contemporary Foreign Literature, 3(2010), 89-96.

 

The Orientation of Ethics and Morals in Philip Roth’s Novels, Foreign Language and Literature, Vol.25, 2(2009), 42-46.

 

Exploring the Ultimate Meaning of Life by Death: on Philip Roth’s Everyman, Journal of Nanchang University, Vol.40, 1(2009), 114-118.

 

A Brief Introduction of Jahan Ramazani’s Poetic Theory, Foreign Literature Studies, Vol.30, 4(2008), 174-76.

 

The Ethical Conflicts in Consanguineous Revenge: A Review of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, Drama Literature, 2(2008), 62-66.

 

The Combination of Poetics and Truth: Self-writing in Autobiography, Social Scientist, 1(2008), 146-149.

 

The Existential Paradox behind Identity: A Review of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, Foreign Literature Studies, Vol.29, 6(2007), 104-110.

 

Conferences

2023. 20 Years of Ethical Literary Criticism: Retrospect and Prospect. The 12th Conference of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism, Huazhong Normal University.

 

2023. The Annual Conference of Jiangsu Association for the Studies of Comparative Literature, Nanjing Institute of Technology.

 

2022. The Annual Conference of Jiangsu Association for the Studies of Foreign Literature, Huaiyin Normal University.

 

Scholarly Exchanges

2010-2011 SUNY-Buffalo, USA

Past Schools

 

2000-2019 School of Foreign Studies, Nanchang University

 

Research Grants

A Study of War Writing in Contemporary South Asian English Literature, sponsored by Jiangsu Provincial Funds for Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2022-2025.

 

A Study of South Asian Indian American Women’s Fiction, sponsored by Chinese National Funds for Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2016-2021.

 

Diasporic Writing and Spatial Construction in Kiran Desai’s Fiction, sponsored by Funds for Philosophy and Social Sciences of Jiangxi Educational Bureau, 2016-2020.

 

Ethical Interpretation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction, sponsored by Jiangxi Provincial Funds for Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2015-2018.

 

A Study of Philip Roth’s Novels, sponsored by Chinese National Funds for Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2008-2014.