Name: JIAO Min

Gender: Female

Title: Professor and MA Supervisor

Department: Department of Regional, International and Cross-cultural Studies

Research Interest: Shakespearean Studies, Contemporary American Literature/Culture, Literature/cultural hermeneutics

Personal Homepage: https://felc.gdufs.edu.cn/info/2104/7715.htm

Office: Room 407, Teaching Building 1 North

Email: 199910212@oamail.gdufs.edu.cn

Education

1991-1995 B.A. English

Central South University of China

2012-2013 M.A. English Literature

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2014-2020 M.A. English Literature

University of Westminster

2020-2021 Research Fellow

Cambridge University

Work Experience

1999-2003 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2003-2009 Lecturer, Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2009-2019 Associate Professor, Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2019-present Professor, Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Research Projects

• “Literary Hermeneutics: Dimensions and Fusion of Horizons” National Social Science Foundation Post-funding Projects（20FWWB001）

• “Econo-literary Criticism and Shakesperean Studies” Guangdong Philosophy and Social Science Foundation Project（GD18XWW08）

• “2019 Postgraduates Forum on Comparative Literature/Comparative Cultural Studies” Postgraduates Teaching Research Project, Department of Education of Guangdong Province (2019SXLT21)

• “Appreciating Shakespearean Drama from the Perspective of Economics” 2019 Key Project, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies(19JCZD03)

• “Essence of Humanism in Shakespearean Drama: Reflecting on Humanism from the conflicts between Law and Humanism” Sub Project under Key project, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies （GDUFS211-1-059）

• “Conflicts Between Law and Humanism in Shakespearean Drama from the Perspective of Feminism” Youth Project, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GWQ0833)

• “Literary Hermeneutics: Dimensions and Fusion of Horizons” Project of the Institute of Hermeneutics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies（CSY-2019-B-02）

• Academic Publications

  1. Hermeneutic Shakespeare. New York: Routledge, 2023.

  2. “Mothering and Motherhood: Experience, Ideology and Agency”. Comparative Literature Studies, 56(3)：541-556.

  3. “Shakespeare and Econo-literary Criticism”. Theoretic Studies in Literature and Art, 40(2)：25-33.

  4. “The Melancholy of Antonio in The Merchant of Venice: From the Perspectives of Usury and Credit”. Theoretic Studies in Literature and Art, 42(4)：172-180.

  5. Jiao Min, Yang J , Huang J . “Overpopulation and cognitive mapping of freedom: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom”. Neohelicon, 2022, 49(1):385-401

  6. “Law, order and the Ideology of Sexuality in Measure for Measure”. Foreign Literature Studies, 30(4):30-35.

  7. “Research on Inheritance in Shakespeare’s plays”. Hunan University Journal (Social Science Edition), 25(6):99-104.

  8. “Structural Cohesion of “The Waste Land””. Sichuan Foreign Studies College Journal,17(6)：31-33.

  9.“Thing, Ecology, Technology: Posthumanism and Contemporary Foreign Literature”. Contemporary Foreign Literature, 40(2)：169-173.

  10. “Stepping Down the Altar: Mother-daughter relationship in The Kitchen God’s Wife”. Hunan University Journal (Social Science Edition), 23(2): 87-90.

  11. “Myths and Modernity: Evaluation of Eliot’s Mythical Methods”. Journal of Arts and Humanities, 7(7) ：47-53.

  12.Humanism, Humanities and Literature Teaching Practice. Northeast Asia Forum on Foreign Languages, 5(1):8.

  13.“Mothering Plight Under Double Marginalization in White Teeth”. World Forum on Literature,1(2):150-154.

  14.“Communicative Teaching in the Course of American Literature”. Journal of Educational Science of Hunan Normal University, 7(6):101-103.

  15.“This Strange Institution of Literature: History and Literariness”. Northeast Asia Forum on Foreign Languages，10(6): 10-15.

  16. “Homosexuals: In or Out? Natural or Acquired”. Studies in Literature and Language. 17(3):1-5.

  17. “Tactics of Power in Measure for Measure”. Journal of Arts and Humanities, 8(7), 28-34.

  18. “American Realism and American Naturalism”; “American Modernism” American Literature Understanding and Appreciation (The Eleventh Five-year plan National Planned Textbook), Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2007；

  Conference Presentations

1. Jiao, Min (2017, Summer). “Narrative Approach to Henry V” (Branagh, 1989), Paper presented at the 2017 International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education, Moscow, Russia.

2. Jiao, Min (2017 Winter). “Exploring Shakespeare’s Biographies” Paper presented at the Literature and biographies: Cross cultural, Cross disciplinary Summi, Qingdao, Shandong, China.

3. Jiao, Min (2018, Summer). “Mothering and Motherhood: Experience, Ideology and agency” Paper presented at the Comparative Literature/Culture 2018 Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

4. Jiao, Min (2018, Winter) “Shakespeare and Econo-literary Criticism” Paper presented at the 14^th Annual Conference of the Chinese Association for Theory of Literary and Art, Beijing, China.

5. Jiao, Min (2019, Winter) “The Melancholy of Antonio in The Merchant of Venice: From the perspective of Usury and Credit” Paper presented at the 2^nd Conference on Literature and Economics Cross Disciplinary Research”, Beijing, China.

6. Jiao, Min (2020 Spring) “Geography, Economics, and Identity in The Comedy of Errors” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Society, Hangzhou, China.

Academic Affiliations

• Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

  Courses Taught

• A Brief History of Western Civilization

• American Literature

• Understanding Contemporary China

• Shakespearean Studies (Postgraduates)