Li Chen is professor of English and director for the Irish Studies Centre at School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing 100089, China). She visited Boston College as a Fulbright scholar from 2017 to 2018, and is a recipient of Ireland’s 2022 Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Her academic interest lies mainly in contemporary British and Irish literature. She has finished two projects, respectively on Irish literary Revival and contemporary Irish novels, funded by China’s National Social Science Foundation, and is working on Elizabeth Bowen’s thing-writing.
TITLE/POSITION • Professor of English, • Director for the Irish Studies Centre
EMAIL: chenli339@bfsu.edu.cn
DEGREES • PhD: English Literature, PLA Foreign Languages University, March 2008
ACADEMIC POSITIONS • 2017-now: professor, School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University • 2014-2017: associate professor, School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University • 2009-2014：associate professor, Department of English, PLA Foreign Languages University
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE • 2024.7: Visiting scholar to the University of Notre Dame sponsored by Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies • 2017-2018: Fulbright visiting scholar to Boston College
TEACHING • Irish Literature • Contemporary Irish Fiction • The Irish Literary Revival and Modernism Utopian and Dystopian Classics • Literature and Life: An Intensive Reading Course
RESEARCH INTERESTS • contemporary Irish writing • Irish modernism • Irish Diaspora
RESEARCH PROJECTS • 2023- : Chronicle and Study on 21st Century Irish Literature (23&ZD304) • 2023- : Thing-Writing in Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction (23WXA001) • 2016-2020: Contemporary Irish Novels: Space and Identity (16BWW055)
ACADEMIC SERVICES • Board member, the British Literature Studies Division, China Association of Foreign Literature (CAFL) • Board member, the National Association for the study of Literature in English, CAFL • Vice Chief-Editor, Journal of Literature in English
SCHOLARLY WORKS • “War, Espionage, and Masculine Anxiety in Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter” (Chapter 5 of War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction. Ed. Susan L. Austin. Vernon Press, 2023) • A Concise History of Irish Literature (in Chinese, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2023) • Spatial Literary Studies (in Chinese, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2020) • “Irish Literature in China” (Éire-Ireland, vol. 53, 2018, pp.268-291) • Self-Fashioning in the Irish Literary Revival (in Chinese, Tianjin: Nankai University Press, 2016)
AWARDS & HONOURS • the 2022 Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad
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