Background

Professor Wu Gefei got a MA from Nanjing Normal University, and a PHD from Suzhou University. He is now one of the Research fellows in China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), Director of Institute for Comparative and Foreign Studies, Vice Dean and Professor of School of Foreign Studies of CUMT, supervisor for MA program specializing in British & American literature, as well as Chinese & Western comparative literary studies. He was an academic visitor to the University of Cambridge and Birmingham University. He is also one of the directors of Foreign Literature Association and Comparative Literature Association of Jiangsu Province, as well as a member of Comparative Literature Association of China, Comparative Literature Teaching Association of China and British Comparative Literature Association. So far he has had more than 60 publications including academic papers, articles and books concerning foreign literature and comparative literary and cultural studies, as well as English pedagogy in the Chinese context. His current research interests are literary theory and criticism, Marxist literary and cultural criticism, contemporary Chinese literature and Sino-foreign literary relationship.

Selected Publications

Sartre and China-----Inquiry of Human Existence in Neo-Era Chinese Literature, Press of China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, 2004.

A Study of Sino-Western Comparative Literature from?Contemporary Cultural Perspectives , Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing, China. 2006.

Learning English According to Examples, Press of Beijing University of Industrial Technology, Beijing, China.2001.

Selections from World-famous Fairy Tales, Jiangsu Children’s Press, Nanjing, China. 1990.

Nature, Child, and Poem-----Childhood Ideal in the 19th Century British Romantic Literature, Journal of Nanjing Normal University, No.1, 2000.

Chinese and Western Elegiac Verses-----A Psychological Insight into Their Cultural Differences, Journal of Xuzhou Normal University, No.4, 1998.

On Zhou Libo’s Realist Aesthetic Thoughts in His Foreign Literature Study, Journal of Xuzhou Education College, No.3, 1999.

The Western Elegiac Verses ----- A Comparison With the Ancient Chinese Mourning Poems, A special supplementary journal for the First National Academic Seminar on Foreign Languages and Literature for National Young Scholars, 1998.

Construction of the Cultural Critical System as an Integral Whole in China’s Foreign Literature Studies, Journal of Sichuan International Studies University, No.4, 2000.

Innovation on the Teaching of English Literature to Improve English at Discipline Level, Journal of Sichuan International Studies University, No.4, 2002.

On Parallelism and Cross-cultural Study Approaches of Comparative Literature, Journal of China University of Mining and Technology-Social Science Edition, No.4, 2002.

From Translation to Reception----the Dissemination and Influence of Sartrean Works in China, Journal of the Contemporary Foreign Literature, No.4, 2002.

Soul of a Solitary Individual: An Analysis of Sartre’s Nausea and Its Aesthetic Meaning, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, No.4, 2002.

Life’s Struggle against Absurdity: An Existentialist Interpretation of Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, No.2, 2004.

Sartre and Human Existence Inquiry in Neo-Era Chinese Literature, Journal of Anhui Normal University, No.3, 2004.

Discovery And Reconstruction of Human Paradigm in New-era Literature Chinese Literature under the Influence of Sartre, Journal of China University of Mining and Technology-Social Science Edition, No.2, 2004.

Foreign Literature, Translation Literature, or Chinese Literature? Towards a Literary Translation Vision from the Perspectives of Modern Deconstructive theory and Comparative Literature, Journal of China University of Mining and Technology-Social Science Edition, No.24, 2005.

Cultivating the Creative Competence of English Major Students through Graduation Thesis Composition and Supervision, Journal of Meitan Higher Education, No.6, 2005.

Sartre's Encounter with China. Comparative Literature (Slovenia), 30.1.2007.

On Terry Eagleton’s Interpretation Paradigm of the Crisis of Contemporary Culture. Journal of China University of Mining and Technology-Social Science Edition, No.4 2007.

Contact Details

China University of Mining & Technology(Nanhu Campus) School of Foreign Studies Xuzhou Jiangsu China 221116
Email:xzjeffrey@yahoo.com.cn
Telephone:0086-516-83591610