Profile
Name: Wan Xuemei Sex: Female
Ph.D., Professor, MA Supervisor
Add: School of Foreign Languages, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang,
Jiangsu 212013, PRC
E-mail: 1138121107@qq.com
Research Fields:
English Language and Literature
Comparative Literature
Chinese Culture
Courses Offered:
1. Studies of Novels in English
2. An Introduction of Literary Research
3. Introduction to Comparative Literature
4. Music and Health
Selected Publications:
1. Wan Xuemei. “Poetry, Poetics and Science Fiction Epics: An Interview with
Professor Frederick Turner,” Foreign Literature Studies, 6(2015): 1-9.
2. Wan. Xuemei. “English and American Literature Teaching from the Perspective of Interface Studies,” Foreign Language and Literature, 3 (2015): 149-153.
3. Wan Xuemei. “An Interview with Professor Frederick Turner,” Foreign Language and Literature Research, 1(2015): 43-51.
4. Wan Xuemei. “An Overview of Contemporary Kate Chopin Studies in the West,” Contemporary Foreign Literature, 2(2013): 153-160.
5. Wan Xuemei. “On the Translation of Sinology,” Journal of School of Chinese Language and Culture, Nanjing Normal University, 1(2012): 84-88.
6. Wan Xuemei. “Facing the other man: a reading of Kate Chopin’s love affair stories from the Confucian perspective,” Treasures @ UT Dallas, Eugene McDermott Library, 4(2012): 1-16.
7. Wan Xuemei. “A Study of Narrative Perspectives of The Awakening with Guo Xi’s Theory of the ‘Three Distances’,” Foreign Literature Studies 2(2010): 143-150.
8. Wan Xuemei. “A New Exploration in Narrative Perspectives,” Jiangxi Social Sciences 5(2010): 35-40.
9. Wan Xuemei. “Kate Chopin’s View on Death and Freedom in The Story of an Hour,” English Language Teaching 4 (2009): 167-170.
10. Wan Xuemei. “Perceptual Love and Rational Beauty—On Kate Chopin’s A Respectable Woman,” Masterpiece Review 22(2008): 121-123.
11. Wan Xuemei. “A Deconstructive and Feminist Reading of The Millstone,”
Journal of Jiangsu University (Social Science Edition) 6(2008): 72-75.
12. Wan Xuemei. “Poetically Transcending the Conflict between Life and Death,” Journal of Sichuan International Studies University 3(2007): 28-31.
Monograph:
1. The Awakenings: New Approaches to Kate Chopin’s Works. Jiangsu University
Press, 2018.
2. Beauty in Love and Death—on Kate Chopin’s Works, CHINA Social Sciences
Press, 2012.
Research Projects:
1. On Kate Chopin’s Fiction
2. American Confucius’ Chinese Dream
3. Chinese Dream in American Literature
4. Zhenjiang Culture in International Communication
5. Kate Chopin’s Classic Acceptance and Interpretation from Chinese Culture