Basic Information:

Qiu Xiaoqing, Professor of English, Department of English Literature and Comparative Literature Studies. Her major research areas are narratology and Contemporary Anglo-American literature.

Email：qiuxiaoqing@gdufs.edu.cn

Educational Background:

09,1991-06,1995: BA in English from South Central University;

09, 1995-06,1998: MA in English literature from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies;

09, 2002-06,2003: MA in Tourism Management from the University of Westminster;

09,2007-06,2012: PhD in Contemporary Literature and culture Theories from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies;

02, 2014-02,2015: Visiting Scholar at the University of Hawaii, Manoa

Recent Research Areas:

Postclassical Narratology (Especially Econarratology)

Contemporary Anglo-American Literature (Especially American Environmental Literature)

Representative Papers:

1. “Rhetorical Theories of Fictionality.” English and American Literature Studies 41(Autumn 2024): 247-261. (Chinese)

2. “Narrative Agency of Nonhuman Nature: A Study on Rick Bass’s Narratives of Re-enchantment.” Contemporary Foreign Literature 44.3 (2023): 27-34. (Chinese)

3. “Listening to the Wilderness: The Intra-action between Humans and Nonhumans in “The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness.” Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 33.3 (2022): 45-53. (Chinese)

4. “ ‘Being Sensate and Passionate’: A Study on Rick Bass’s Nonfiction about the Yaak.” Cognitive Poetics 10 (2021): 187-199. (Chinese)

5. “Posthumanist Writing of Humans and Nonhuman Nature in ‘The Myths of Bears’: A New-Materialist Reading.” Contemporary Foreign Literature 41.4 (2000): 88-94. (Chinese)

6. “Multi-Directional Communication: An Overview of Contemporary Western Rhetorical Narratology.” Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages 43.1 (2000): 42-50. (Chinese)

7. Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative: by James Phelan,Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2017, pp.304,US$89.95. ISBN: 9780814213452. Language and Literature 27.3 (2018), 243-245. (Chinese)

8. “The Magic Power of Telling and Retelling in Kissing the Witch.” Forum for World Literature Studies 10.1 (2018): 108-123.

9. “Cinderella in Chinatown: Seeking Identity and Cultural Values in Year of the Fish.” Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-tale Studies 31.2 (2017): 370-385.

10. “Inheritance and Development: Bloody Chamber’s Relationship with Early Fairy Tales.” Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 26.2 (2015): 67-71.

Academic Book:

Narrative Strategies and Female Growth: A Study on Angela Carter’s Fictions. Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2015.

Research Projects:

1. Guangdong Provincial Postgraduate Exemplary Course Construction “Studies in Narratology”, funded by Guangdong Provincial Social Sciences Academy, 2023.（2023SFKC_027）

2. A Study of Ecological Narrative in New-Century American “Wilderness Literature”, funded by Guangdong Provincial Social Sciences Academy, 2022.（GD22CWW03）