MA Hailiang
“I take criticism as a way of justifying alternative views and opinions about life.” TITLE/POSITION: Professor
EMAIL: hlma2112163.com mahailiang@bfsu.edu.cn
DEGREES • PhD, Beijing Normal University（2000） • MA, Shanxi University (1997) • BA, Shanxi Educational College (1987)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS • Lecturer, 1990—1999； • Professor, 2000—P
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE • Visting Scholar, English Faculty of Cambridge University
TEACHING • Classical British Essays • Translation • Academic Writing • Practical Criticism • Contemporary Critical Theories • The Victorian Novel • Culture and Society • Narrative Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS • Criticism • Cultural politics • English literature • Comparative literature
RESEARCH PROJECTS • The Paradigmatic Transformation of Contemporary British Criticism (20BWW005; National Social Sciences and Humanities Fund, 2020) • The Chronicle of British Literature, 1980-2000 (06AWW001; National Social Sciences and Humanities Fund, 2006) • Terry Eagleton’s Literary Theory (00CWW001; National Social Sciences and Humanities Fund, 2000)
ACADEMIC SERVICES • Vice-President of the Society of Foreign Criticism and Comparative Poetics (2012—2022) • Associate Editor of the journal of Foreign Literatures • Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Intercultural Studies Forum • Member of the Academic Committee of the Foreign Literary Studies Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Science （2017—2025）
SCHOLARLY WORKS • ARTICLES - “Theory and Methods of Formal Analysis,” in Foreign Literary Theory and Comparative Poetics, Vol. 10, pp. 253-261, Intellectual Property Press, 2024. - Introduction to An Analysis of Tragic Concepts, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2023. - “Formal Interpretation of Non-Formalism: A Review of Eagleton’s How to Read Literature,” in Foreign Literary Theory and Comparative Poetics, Vol. 8 (2022), pp. 268-277. - Introduction to Vanity Fair, The Commercial Press, 2021. - Introduction to Literary Criticism in the Renaissance Period, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2021. - “Everyday America from the Perspective of Cultural Politics: A Review of Eagleton’s Across the Pond,” in Foreign Literary Theory and Comparative Poetics, Vol. 7 (2020), pp. 231-240. - “The Dilemma of Modern Ethics,” in Foreign Literary Theory and Comparative Poetics, Vol. 6 (2019), pp. 275-284. - “The Entanglement of Culture and Religion,” in Foreign Literary Theory and Comparative Poetics, Vol. 5 (2018), pp. 141-145. - “Eagleton and the Problem of Empiricism,” in Foreign Literature Review, No. 4, 2016, pp. 78-95. • MONOGRAPHS - Companion to Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2021. - Ecological Literary Trend (contributed chapter), Chapter 8 of Contemporary Western Literary Trends, Higher Education Press, 2015. - Cultural-Political Aesthetics, China Social Sciences Press, 2004. How to Do Cultural Studies, World Affairs Press, 2012.
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