School Bulletin

Problem Sense in Literary Research

Speaker: Associate Researcher Chen Guangxing,

Chairman: Associate Professor He Hua

Date: November 17, 2023(Friday),14:30

Venue: Lecture Hall 2, School of Foreign Languages, Northwest University

Organizer: School of Foreign Languages

Chen Guangxing, Ph.D. in Literature, associate researcher at the Institute of Literature Studies at Shanghai International Studies University, and director of the editorial department of English and American Literary Studies (a source journal indexed by CSSCI). He specializes in the study of English and American literature. He has authored the monograph A Study on the Plot of Joseph Conrad Fiction and contributed to the compilation of the A Companion to American Literature. He has translated works such as Cultural History of Coffeehouses, Status Anxiety, Tristessa, The Modernist Papers, On Seeing and Noticing, Communities in Fiction and After Work. His academic articles, including "The Dilemma of Ethnic Literature in America: Insights from Erasure"(Foreign Literature Review), "Body Transformation and Mimicry: On Philip Roth's The Breast (Foreign Literatures), The Paradox of Free Writing? - The Case of Chinese-American Writer Ha Jin"(Comparative Literature in China), and "Interpreting Jonathan Franzen's Novel Freedom as a Commercial Endeavor" (Contemporary Foreign Literature) have been widely published. Several articles including "The Logic of Inevitable Otherness" and "Four Perspectives on Interpreting Conrad's Tragedies" were fully reprinted in China Social Science Excellence. His recent research focus includes literary theory and contemporary

American novels. His translated works such as Status Anxiety and Communities in Fiction have had a significant impact on Chinese readers.

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