DU Jun

E-mail: jundu1103@163.com/jundu1103@gmail.com

Room 442 Building 1 North, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Baiyun Mountain Campus)

EDUCATION

09/2018 to 02/2023 Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature (Irish Literature)

UCD School of English, Drama and Film

Doctoral Thesis: The Home and The World: Existence and Interrelationship in Post-2010 Irish Women’s Writing (Funded by UCD-CSC Postgraduate Scholarship)

09/2017 – 11/2018 MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama (GPA:3.59)

UCD School of English, Drama and Film

MA Dissertation: Trauma and Female Subjectivity in the Novels of Eimear McBride

09/2015 – 07/2019 MA in English Language and Literature (Irish Studies) (GPA:3.8/4.0)

School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University

MA Dissertation: Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing – A Case Study of Trauma and Recovery in Eimear McBride’s Novels (BFSU Excellent Dissertation Award)

09/2011 – 07/2015 BA in English Language and Literature (Hons) (GPA: 3.8/4.0; first place in the School)

School of English and Foreign Languages, Shenyang Jianzhu University

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2023.9 – Present Lecturer, Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2021. 9 – 2022. 6 Tutor, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin

2017.2 – 2017.6 Part-time English Lecturer, Beijing Dance Academy

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

1. Du, Jun. “‘A Stern Language of Beauty”: Ecological Grief and Ecofeminist Ethics in Paula Meehan’s Poetry.” Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 16, no. 1, 2022, pp. 98-117. (A&HCI)

2. Du, Jun. “Mapping the Unhomely in Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs.” Contemporary Women’s Writing. Forthcoming (Accepted). (A&HCI)

3. Du, Jun. “The Biopolitics of Emotions and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Irish Writing by Non-White Authors”. The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing, edited by Anne Fogarty and Eugene O’Brien, Routledge, 2024, forthcoming.

4. “‘Third Spaces’, Transformation and Translation in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry.” Conference Paper, 2022 IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures) Conference.

5. “‘Words Can Keep the Memory of Anyone Alive’: the Aesthetics of Postmemory in Sinéad Gleeson’s ‘The Haunted Haunting Women’.” Conference Paper, 2024 IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures) Conference.

6. Editor, A Practical Course of English-Chinese Translation (Li Yang, Chang Le, et al., Yanbian University Press, 2015).

   GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

   2018 – 2022 UCD-CSC Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD Funding)

   2021 IRISH Seminar Tuition Fellowship (Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies)

   2017 – 2018 Government of Ireland International Scholarship

   AWARDS AND HONOURS

   2021 Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford University Press) Essay Prize Runner-up/Special Recommendation

   2019 BFSU Excellent MA Dissertation Award

   PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Member of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)

• Member of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (CWWA)

  SERVICE TO PROFESSION

  Reviewer, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Taylor & Francis)