Men Chunlin
Starting out as a Jamesian reader and scholar, I am interested in researching how the beauty, affectivity, and politics of literary forms can produce – sometimes surprisingly –forces of change for a better collective life. As a teacher, I try to encourage my literature students to perceive the classroom as a space where various forms of life enjoy a preciously brief – and inevitably awkward – moment of recognition through free articulation. TITLE/POSITION: Lecturer
EMAIL: menchunlin@bfsu.edu.cn
DEGREES • PhD in English literature, Queen Mary University of London, 2024.11 • MA in English literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2020.6 • BA in English language and literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2017.6
ACADEMIC POSITIONS • Lecturer 2025.5 – Present
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE • 2020.9-2024.11 Queen Mary University of London
TEACHING • Reading Critically (Literature and Life) • Argumentative Writing • Translation • Interpersonal Communication
RESEARCH INTERESTS • Victorian fiction and culture • theories of the novel • critical theories
RESEARCH PROJECTS • PhD thesis: Abstraction in Victorian Fiction
SCHOLARLY WORKS • “Henry James’s Perpetual Mediation.” Henry James Review (2026 Winter): Forthcoming. • “Vernon Lee’s Ecological Intelligence.” Vernon Lee and the Future of Intelligence. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Forthcoming. • (Translation) Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece. By Michael Gorra. Shortlisted for Pulitzer Prize 2012. Joint Publishing. Forthcoming. • “Abstraction.” Victorian Literature and Culture 51.3 (2023 Fall): 355-358. • “Loving James, Abstractly.” Henry James Review 44.1(2023): 63-78. • “The Ambitions and Anxieties of Ambience.” A book review on Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices. Moveable Type 13(2021): 90-93. • “The Form of Affect in The Ambassadors.” Henry James Review 41.1(2020 Winter): 31-43.
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