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Fields of interest

• Comparative Literature
• Literary Theory
• Gender Studies

Research

New historicism was once a hot topic in both European and Chinese literary academia, and it emerged in the 1980s, which are those heydays of Cultural studies and Post-colonialism. Focusing on the relationships between literature and history, European theorists and their American counterparts have extended it into fields, such as historiography, anthropology, translation studies and even medical history. Chinese critics are more interested in its social implications to the theoretical studies of historical literature, intangible cultural heritage, and oral traditions in folklore. Although new historicism or cultural materialism as a certain label for some literary critics, is no long popular, its influence still remains and even persists, as long as we still demand any sense of history towards the study of literature, classical or modern, medieval or contemporary.

Hence, my post-doctoral study of cultural poetics in new historicism will consist of at least two parts: (1) to focus on the cross-disciplinary studies of literature, history, and culture, and intensify the historical studies of comparative and general literature. Under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Ernst van Alphen, I plan to polish my PhD thesis for publication and start another project entitled “Memory, Subjectivity, Narrative and Ethics: a cross-cultural study on the cultural poetics of new historicism”. (2) With a personal strong interest in cultural criticism and gender studies, I prefer comparative studies of contemporary English literatures from different continents, at least in two directions, namely “the historical interpretation of literature in culture”, and “the poetical or theoretical construction of culture in history”.

Teaching activities

• Full time Teaching at Jinan University, Courses at different levels, such as An Introduction to English and American Literature, Business English, Cambridge Business English and College English for Non-english majors.
  

Curriculum Vitae

Employment

• Post-doctoral reseacher at the Institute of Cultural Disciplines, Leiden University(Leiden,the Netherlands) 

• Lecturer in English Literature, School of Foreign Languages, Jinan University(Guangzhou, PR.C)
  

Education 

• PhD in Literary Studies: Sun Yat-sen University, June 25 2008; Supervisor: Prof.GAO Xiaokang

• M.A in English Literature: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, June 25 2005; Supervisor: Prof.MA Jianjun

Key publications

• Wang Jin. “Disgrace: On J.M.Coetzee’s Narrative of Gender Troubles”, Journal of China Women’s University, 2010(1) 
• Wang Jin. “Critical Transgressions and Discursive Oscillations: On the Dialogisms in Cultural poetics of New Historicism”, Journal of Jinan University (Philosophy and Social Science edition), 2009(6). 
• Wang Jin. “English Lover: On the Chinese Novelist Hong Yin’s Gender Trouble”, Literature of Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Oversea Chinese, 2009(5). 
•  Wang Jin. “From Social Criticism to Cultural Demystification: on the Cultural Poetics of New Historicism in the Theoretical Vision of Cultural Materialism ”, Yun Nan Social Science, 2009(2). 
•  Wang Jin: “Literary Production and Self-fashioning: A Study of New Historicism on the Identity Problems in Renaissance Literature”, An Anthology of Cultural Identity Studies in Postmodern Context, Prof.LIU Yan (ed.), Beijing: Phoenix Press, 2008(10).