Director:

     RUI Yuping

      Professor of English, specializing in American literature, adolescent literature and women literature.

Deputy Director: DUAN Hanwu (associate professor)

Members:

ZHOU Ping (professor)

GUO Yiqin (associate professor)

QIAN Zhifu (associate professor)

LU Rugang (associate professor)

YING Yan (associate professor)

CHEN Xiaoju (associate professor)

Adeil TAYIR (lecturer)

LIU Chunhui (lecturer)

CAO Hongxia (lecturer)

FU Jieying(lecturer)

XU Yan (lecturer)

YING Sufang (lecturer)

HU Lan (lecturer)

LI Li (lecturer)

ZHANG Zhi (lecturer)

Adjuncts:

ZHAO Fa (professor)

FAN Yi (professor)

YANG Chenghu (professor)

XU Ximing (professor)

CHEN Yujuan (associate professor) 

Ongoing Projects:

RUI Yuping

“Studies on Contemporary American Initiation Stories,” sponsored by National Social Science Foundation.

“Studies on American Initiation Stories,” sponsored by Zhejiang Social Science Foundation.

“Contemporary American Adolescent Literature Studies,” sponsored by Ningbo University.

DUAN Hanwu

“A Comparative Study of Landscape Art between China in the Tang Dynasty and Britain in the Romantic Period,” sponsored by Zhejiang Social Science Foundation;

QIAN Zhifu

“A Comparative Study of Literary Traditions between Chinese and British Literature,” sponsored by Department of Education of Zhejiang Province;

LU Rugang

 “The Striking Effect of the Globalization of English on the Visual Images in Ningbo” sponsored by Zhejiang Social Science Association;

“The Tri-division of the Globalization of English and Its Characteristics” sponsored by the Overseas Studies Foundation, Department of Education of Zhejiang Province;

GUO Yiqin

 “Pearl Buck and Chinese Culture” sponsored by Zhejiang Social Science Association;

CAO Hongxia

  “The Theme of Growing Up in Overseas Chinese Literature” sponsored by Ningbo University;  

Main Publications:

Adeil TAYIR

The Celibate Machine in Good Evening Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition) 16/4, 2003;

 Monad in the Dark in Libra, Foreign Literature Studies 2, 2003;

Desire Is Not A Signifier: A Revaluation of Lolita, Journal of Henan Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 6, 2002;

G. G. Rung’s Collective Unconsciousness and Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, Journal of Henan Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 2, 2000;

On the Superman in Martin Eden, Foreign Literature Studies 2, 2003; 

CAO Hongxia

Multiculturalism and Contemporary American Literature, Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition) 1, 2005; 

DUAN Hanwu

On the Death of Hedvig: An Ethical Interpretation of The Wild Duck, Foreign Literature Studies 5, 2005;

 A Comparative Study of the Chinese Landscape Art during the Tang Dynasty and the Lake Poems in Britain, Foreign Literature Studies 4, 2004;

An Interpretation of Conrad's The Heart of Darkness, Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition) 4, 2003;

Postmodernist Characteristics in American Beauty, Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition) 4, 2002;

The Writing Techniques in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Journal of Anhui University of Technology (Social Sciences) 2, 2005;

LIU Chunhui

Collaged World by a Mythmaker: The Early Works of Sam Shepard, Journal of Qiqihar University (Philosophy & Social Science Edition) 2, 2004;

GUO Yiqin

Creativity and Cross-cultural Communication: An Analysis of the Way Pearl S. Buck Representing the Chinese Culture in The Good Earth, Foreign Language and Literature Studies 1, 2004;

Elaboration of the Functions of the Articles in Relation to Context and Text, Foreign Languages Research 1, 2002;

LU Rugang

On the Unpopularity of Literary Stylistics in TEFL, Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition) 3, 2002;

On the Cognitive Quality of Irony Through Comparison with Metaphor, Journal of Sichuan International Studies University 2, 2001;

QIAN Zhifu

On the Aesthetic Function of Emotions on Poetry Writing, Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition) 3, 2004;

On Hu Feng's Literary Theory and its Impact on the July Poetic School, Journal of Ningbo University(Liberal Arts Edition) 2, 2003;

RUI Yuping

American Fiction Studies in China between 2000-2004, Foreign Literature Studies 3, 2005.

British and American Literature: Aim and Course Design, co-author, Foreign Literature Studies 3, 2005.

The Initiation Theme in British Literature, Journal of Ningbo University 17/2, 2004. Also in 2004 Almanac of Chinese Children’s Literature, Nanjing: Jiangsu Children’s Literature Press. 2005.

The Dream Carvers: Constructing Identity through Narration, Foreign Literature Studies 1, 2004.

Cultural Conflicts and Growing-up Pains -- Reading Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brown Stones, Contemporary Foreign Literature 2, 2003.

Non-verbal Communications in The Good Earth and Their Interpretations, Collected Papers in Memory of Pearl S. Buck, Changchun: Jilin Literature and History Press. 2003.

Women’s Silence and Rebellion: On Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth and The Mother, Journal of Ningbo University 14/4, 2001.

Feminine features in Jewett’s Fictional Language, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages 5, 2000.

Initiation Stories in American Literature, Journal of Sichuan International Studies University 4, 2000.

XU Yan

Metafiction in The Golden Notebook, Journal of Ningbo University (Liberal Arts Edition) 16/3, 2003;

YING Sufang

A Brief Study on the Narrative Techniques of the Novel The Summer before the Dark, Journal of Zhejiang Normal University (Social Sciences) 27/6, 2000;

YING Yan

Book Review: Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Studies by Helena Grice, Journal of American Studies 37/3, 2003: 482-483;

Profile Book Review: Death of a Red Heroine, A Loyal Character Dancer, When Red is Black by Qiu Xiaolong, Modern Language Studies 35/1, 2005: 75-83;

Book Review: Hunger Overcome? Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature by Andrew Warnes, Comparative American Studies: An International Journal 3/3, 2005: 381-382;

On Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry, Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University 8/2, 2001;

ZHANG Zhi

Wordless Cry and Historical Truth: A study of Irony in "Where is the Voice Coming from," Contemporary Foreign Literature 4, 2004; 

Books:

RUI Yuping

A Study of American Initiation Stories, Beijing: China Social Science Publishing House, 2004.

Way In and Way Out: Toward the 21^st Century EFL Teaching and Learning, co-author, Chongqing Publishing House, 1998.

QIAN Zhifu

Collected Poems of Qian Zhifu, Hong Kong: Flying Horse Publishing House, 2004.

ZHOU Ping