Biographical Note

FANG Kairui is professor of English, PhD students’ supervisor, head of the PhD program in English language and literature, and vice-chairman of the Academic Board in the Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou, China. He received his PhD in English language and literature at Peking University (2002-2006), worked as a visiting fellow in the Department of English and Linguistics, Lancaster University (2009) and as a Fulbright VRS in the Department of English, Yale University (2012-2013). His research focuses on narrative and narrative translation studies, literary stylistics, and the history of Sino-foreign cultural exchanges.

Courses Offered

Stylistic Approaches to Translation, English-Chinese Translation, Chinese-English Translation, Business English Translating, Introducing Translation Studies (BA courses); Literary Stylistics, Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchanges, Literary Translation: Theory and Practice, Literary Research and Academic Writing; Literary Texts: Theory and Methods (MA and PhD courses)

Publications and Translations

Over 30 journal papers; Kuaile de Qidai (a collection of British essays, Flower City Publishing House, 1998); essays/poetry/short fiction translated and published in magazines/journals such as Duzhe (Readers) and Chinese Translators Journal; member of the editorial board of Advanced English (South China University of Technology Press, 2000); New Perspectives: Contemporary Literary & Cultural Studies (co-editor-in-chief, South China University of Technology Press, 2000); The Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China (translation in English, 1999); Hung Sin-nui’s Road to Art (translation in English, 1998); Context, Convention, and Form: A Study of English-Chinese Fiction Translation from the Late Qing Dynasty to the 1930s, (in Chinese, 语境、规约、形式——晚清至20世纪30年代英语小说汉译研究, Peking University Press, 2012; available in the libraries of many foreign universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Virginia, UCB, Wisconsin Madison, Illinois Urbana-Shampaign in USA, and Toronto in Canada).

Academic Awards

Sino-US Fulbright VRS (2012-2013); PKU Excellent PhD Dissertation Award (2nd prize, 2008); PKU Outstanding Student Award (2004); Gui Shichun Excellence in Academic Research for the MA Thesis (1997); National Outstanding Student Award (1996); Guangdong Province Outstanding Student Award (1996); Han Suyin Young Translators’ Award (1^st prize, 1995); Translators Association of China Contest “Han Suyin Young Translators’ Award and Me” (2^nd prize, 2018); ranked among the Most Influential Scholars in Philosophy and Social Sciences (the catalogue of Literature, Chang’an University, 2020)

Membership of Academic//Professional/Political Bodies

Reviewer for National Scholarship Translation Funds; reviewer for China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education; Member of Yale History of the Book; member of the standing committee of Guangzhou Translators’ Association; reviewer for a few Chinese and international journals (CSSCI, SSCI); member of Guangdong Administration Committee on Education and Teaching in Higher Education; research fellow (part-time) at the Centre for Translation Studies and the Centre for Foreign Literature and Culture at GDUFS; member of the Cultural Committee of the Central Committee of the Jiu San (Sept.3^rd) Society; vice-chairman of the Cultural Committee of Guangdong Committee of the Jiu San (Sept.3^rd) Society; vice-chairman of GDUFS Committee of Guangdong Committee of the Jiu San (Sept.3^rd) Society.