Name: YU Jing
Gender: F
Title: A/P
Email: 101012828@seu.edu.cn
Address:
School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University
Si Pailou2#, Nanjing
Jiangsu Province
P. R. China
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Thomas Hardy studies, cosmopolitanism, Victorian literature and culture, feminist studies, post-colonialism
EDUCATION:
• National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
Ph.D. in English Literature, 2020.
• Sichuan University, China.
M. A., in English Language and Literature, 2012.
• Sichuan International Studies University, China.
B. A., 2009, in English Language and Literature, 2009.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
• Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, 2021-present.
• Teaching Assistant, National University of Singapore, 2015-2018, first semester of each academic year.
• Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Yunnan Normal University, 2012-2015.
PUBLICATIONS:
Book:
• Cosmopolitanism and Transnational Communications in Thomas Hardy's Novels, Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Science Press (SASSP), 2023.
Edited Book:
• “Desiring Body: Jude the Obscure and Emerging Cosmopolitanism.” Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Carol A Schwartz. Vol. 456. Prod. Layman Poupard. Detroit: Gale, Cengage, 2024. 152-61.
Articles:
• “The Carceral Space in The Mayor of Casterbridge—The Capitalist Power, Penal Transportation and Grassroots Resistance”, Foreign Literature Review (CCSCI), vol. 4 (2025): 217-239.
• “An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Rural Crime, Migration and Colonial Exile in The Mayor of Casterbridge”, English and American Literary Studies, 43 (2025): 28-46.
• “Empowered Shadow: Absent Gypsies, Immunity and the Event of Novel in Far from the Madding Crowd.” Pacific Coast Philology (ESCI), vol. 58, no. 1-2 (2023): 134-153.
• Yu, Jing. “Desiring Body: Jude the Obscure and Emerging Cosmopolitanism.” Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Carol A Schwartz. Vol. 456. Prod. Layman Poupard. Detroit: Gale, Cengage, 2024. 152-61.
• “Migration and the Politics of Intersection in The Mayor of Casterbridge.” The Hardy Society Journal, vol 19, no 2 (2023): 19-34.
• “Melodrama and Cosmopolitanism in The Trumpet-Major.” Essays in Criticism (A&HCI) 71, 2 (2021): 183–201.
Projects:
• 2024.Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (award NO. 3217002402B2), Southeast University, China.
• 2021.Start-up Research Funds for Central Universities (award NO. 3217002101A2), Southeast University, China.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AND SEMINARS:
• “The Politics of Mobility: Cosmopolitanism in Thomas Hardy’s Novels”, Revisiting the Canonical Western Writers (Face-to-Face Panel) in the Annual Meeting of Jiangsu Association of Foreign Literature Studies & Foreign Affairs Committee under Jiangsu Writers Association, Southeast University, 2023.
• “‘Too Theatrical to be Convincing’: Disturbing Voices, Patriotism and Belonging to Nowhere”, The Right to Speak (Virtual Panel) in the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Taiwan Normal University, 2022.
• “‘Now You Are My Friend’: Migration and Hybridization in The Mayor of Casterbridge”, The British Literature and Culture: Long 19th Century III (Virtual Panel) in the 118th annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, Las Vegas, 2021.
• Postgraduate seminars, The 23rd International Thomas Hardy Festival and Conference, Dorchester, UK, 2018.
• “Local and Global: Thomas Hardy, Literary Tourism and the Debatable Authenticity”, delivered in the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2017.
