Teacher

Lin Yuzhen  Associate Professor

Department:Department of Translation

Educational Background & Work Experience

【Educational Background】
▪    Sept. 1991-Jul. 1995, Jiangxi Normal University, Department of English, Bachelor’s degree in English Education (Topic of BA thesis: FID [Free Indirect Discourse] in English Literature)
▪    Sept. 2000-Jul. 2007, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Foreign Languages, Master’s and Doctor’s degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Topic of doctorate dissertation: Reader in Narrative Communication)

【Work Experience】
▪    Jul. 1995-Sept. 2000, Jiangxi Normal University, Department of English
▪    Jul. 2007-Sept. 2012 & Jul. 2013-Now, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Foreign Languages
▪    Jul. 2012-Jul. 2013, Psychology Department, University of Alberta, Canada (Visiting Scholar)
▪    Feb. 2019-Feb. 2020, Trent Center of Aging and Society, Trent University, Canada (China-Canada Scholar Exchanged)

【Honor】
▪    Sept. 2008, First-prize Award of Morning Star Project for Young Scholars in Shanghai Jiao Tong University
▪    Sept. 2011, “Best Teacher” Prize, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
▪    Sept. 2015, “Candle Light” Teaching Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
▪    July. 2017, “Best Teacher” Prize, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Teaching and Research

【Teaching】
 Sept. 2007—Jul. 2009     Teaching College English
 Sept. 2009—now              Teaching Close Reading for English Majors

【Research】
▪    Monograph
▪    2015, The Reader in Narrative Communication: Freedom and Limits in the Interpretation of Narrative Fiction published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
▪    Journals Co-edited
▪    2017 (vice editor-in-chief) Frontiers of Narrative Studies (Vol. 2), published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
▪    2014 (viceeditor-in-chief) Frontiers of Narrative Studies(Vol. 1), published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
▪    2008--2016 (executive editor/editor-in-chief assistant) Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press
▪    Selected Articles
▪    “Interpretation of the Multiple Themes of Alice Munro’s Short Stories,” Forum on Foreign Literature, 2 (2006).
▪    “A New Monument in Ethical Literary Criticism,” Studies of Foreign Literature, 1 (2015).
▪    “Interpreting the Postmodernist Narrative Magic of My Name Is Red,” Contemporary Foreign Languages, 3 (2010).
▪    “Narrative about Them—On the Munro’s Change of Attitudes toward Men in My Dear Life,” Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 1 (2015).
▪    “From ‘Child’s Play’ to ‘Dimensions’—Anodyne Ethics in Narrative Progression,” Foreign Philology, 2 (2015).
▪    “Evolution of Canadianness in Canadian Short Stories,” Contemporary Foreign Languages, 1 (2017).
▪    “Fictionality as Rhetoric Resources in Zuozhuan,” Neohlican, 3 (2018).
▪    Research Project under construction
▪    “Short Stories by Contemporary Canadian Female Writers” (Sponsored by Shanghai Foreign Languages Education Press)
▪    “Canadian Short Stories and the Aging Studies” (Sponsored by 2018-2019 China-Canada Scholars Exchange Program [CCSEP])
▪    “Corporeal Narratology in Contemporary English Short Stories” (Sponsored by School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Professional Service

Aug. 2008~Dec. 2015  Part-time editor of Contemporary ForeignLanguagesStudies (originally Sci-Tech English Studies)
Nov. 2014~    Vice editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Narrative Studies
Jun. 2016~Feb. 2019 Vice director of Center of Creative Writing, Literary Translation and Culture, School of Foreign Languages

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