SHEN Yan

SHEN Yan

Office: 1215, Songjiang Campus, Shanghai International Studies University

Email: shenyan@shisu.edu.cn

Current Position

Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Shanghai International Studies University

Education

2005-2009 Graduate School of Shanghai International Studies University, Ph. D. in English Language and Literature

Research Interest

British Fiction, Modernism and Postmodernism, Literary Theory and Criticism

Overseas Experience

Sept.2010-Mar.2011 Faculty of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, UK, Visiting Scholar

Publications

Selected Papers

   The Railway Carriage Scene in Woolf’s Works: Moving from Modernity to Modernism. English and American Literary Studies (Vol. 34). 2021.6.

    “Another Ego”: Lawrence’s Aesthetics of Characterization in The Rainbow and Women in Love. English and American Literary Studies (Vol. 27). 2017.12.

    William Golding’s Notion of the Novel as “Myth”. Foreign Literature, 2016(1).

    Border-Crossing in William Golding’s Rites of Passage. English and American Literary Studies (Vol. 18). 2013.4.

    Farce in William Golding’s The Paper Men. Foreign Studies, 2013(4).

    William Golding’s Free Fall: A Pilgrimage of Spiritual Discovery. Journal of Zhejiang International Studies University, 2013 (6).

    An Interview with John Carey. Foreign Literature, 2011(6).

    Parody of the Bible in William Golding’s Darkness Visible. English and American Literary Studies (Vol. 12). 2010. 6.

    Creationism and Freedom in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Masterpieces Review, 2010 (2).

   A Study of Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days. Foreign Literature Review, 2007(3).

    Thematic Construction and Deconstruction in “A Very Shorty Story” by Hemingway. Masterpieces Review, 2007 (4).

    Narrative Embedding in Krapp’s Last Tape and The Zoo Story. Journal of Zhejiang Normal University (Social Sciences). 2006(5).

    The Development of Male Characters in Lawrence’s Novels. English and American Literary Studies (Vol. 5). 2006. 2.

Books

    A Study of William Golding’s Novels. Suzhou: Soochow University Press, 2014.

    The Comic Mode in William Golding’s Later Novels. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2011.

Selected Chapters

    Co-Writer. The Idea of Culture in British Literature: Volume Six—Fission. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2020.

    Co-Writer. A History of British Short Story. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2011.

Textbook

    Co-Author. A Student’s Guide to Classic English Short Fictions. Beijing & Shanghai: The Commercial Press & Shanghai Foreign Language Audio -Visual Publishing House, 2018.

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Research Grants

    Jan.2019- . Culture and Criticism: Change and Development in Criticism on British Modernist Fiction. Funded by Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science.

    Jan.2009-Dec.2012.A Study of William Golding’s Novels. Funded by Shanghai City Board of Education.

    Jan.2005-Dec.2008. Stylistics in the Teaching of English Listening Skills. Funded by Shanghai City Board of Education.

    Jan.2018-Dec.2019. A Study of Criticism on British Modernist Fiction, Funded by Shanghai International Studies University.

Honors and Awards

    Shanghai Yucai Award, 1995