Zhou Xueying，Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, School of Humanities and Law

Education and Work Experience

Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, Peking University

M.A. in English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University

B.A. in English Language and Literature, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Visiting Scholar, University of Exeter, UK

Research Interests

British Aestheticism, Anglo-American Modernist Literature, Western Literary Theory, Literature and Science Studies

Courses Taught

History of British Literature, History of American Literature, Anglo-American Modernist Literature, English Audio-Video-Speaking I, English Audio-Video-Speaking II, Teaching Practicum, Translation Practice, etc.

Publications

1) Journal Articles

1. “Daoist Attunement to the Nonhuman: The Mysticism of Mundane Objects in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” In Woolf and Ecologies, eds. Laci Mattison and Shilo McGiff. Clemson University Press, 2026.

2. “Aesthetic Ideology and Global Class Relations: An Interview with Professor Zhou Xiaoyi.” Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (2024).

3. “Purity and Discipline: Decadents’ Perception of Dirt and Victorian Medical Discourse.” Foreign Literature (2023).

4. “The ‘Chaotic Connoisseur’: Wallace Stevens’s Poetics and Metaphorics of Chaos.” Foreign Language Research (2023).

5. “Quantum Reality and Mystical Musings on Precarity in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” The Modernist Review (2023).

6. “Controversies in the Curriculum Design of British and American Literary History and Innovations in Teaching Methods.” Journal of Mudanjiang College of Education (2023).

7. “Walter Pater’s Decadent Shaping of the Mona Lisa and the Modernity of Aesthetics.” Foreign Languages and Cultures (2020).

8. “Middlemarch’s Metacognitive Strategies and Their Ethical Implications.” Foreign Language and Literature (2019).

9. “Diverse Elizabethan Historical Realities from the Perspective of New Historicist Readings of Hamlet.” Journal of Language and Literature Studies (2014).

10. “Feminine Space and Poetic Space: Kristeva’s Critique of Lacan.” Journal of Language and Literature Studies.

11. “An Interpretation of Lukács’s Theory of the Novel.” Journal of Language and Literature Studies (2010).

12. “On T.S. Eliot’s Philosophy of Language.” Literature Education (2010).

13. “Ethical Tension in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry in the Context of Irish Politics.” Journal of Changchun Institute of Technology (2010).

2) Books

Contributor (poetry section), A Guide to Modern English Literary Classics, Chemical Industry Press, 2016 (approx. 40,000 characters).

3) Translations

Sole translator, Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land, Guangxi Normal University Press, Shanghai, 2026 (approx. 400,000 characters).

Co-translator (chapters on Western Marxism and New Criticism), A Practical Guide to Contemporary Critical Theory, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2013 (approx. 50,000 characters).

4) Other Academic Work

Transcriber, “Dialogue: The Third Reich Film Industry,” published in Dushu (Reading), SDX Joint Publishing Company (approx. 10,000 characters).

Research Grants

Teaching Reform Projects

2025-2026 a teaching reform project on the application of artificial intelligence in educational teaching reform and teaching management: “Student Profiling and Differentiated English Teaching Reform Practice Based on 'Language Ability - Learning Behavior - Emotional Motivation'”

2026-2028 a teaching reform project "One Body, Two Wings, Three-Classroom Linkage: A Diversified Stepped System of College English Empowering the Cultivation of High-Quality International Talents"

2023–2024 a teaching reform project “Curriculum-based Ideological and Political Education Demonstration Course”

2023–2025 a teaching reform project “Teaching Design and Practice of Curriculum-based Ideological and Political Education in Academic Writing under the New Liberal Arts Initiative”

2. Advisor, National/University College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programs

2025-2026 "From Literary Imagination to Technological Revolution: On the Influence of Asimov's I, Robot (1950) on the Development of Artificial Intelligence"

2025-2026 "Facing the Snow Proposition: The Model of Bridging the Gap Between Humanities and Sciences in the 'Hard Sci-Fi' of Nature Magazine (2024-2025)"

2024–2025 "Law and Emotion: On Poetic Justice and Emotional Construction in Dickens's Bleak House" (National Level) (The concluding paper won the Special Prize at the 4th "Words and the World" National Undergraduate Academic Forum hosted by Renmin University of China in 2024)

2024–2025 "Exquisite China Blue: Wilde's Labor Aesthetics and Socialist Vision from the Perspective of Mutual Civilizational Learning" (University Level) (The concluding paper won the Special Prize at the 5th "Words and the World" National Undergraduate Academic Forum hosted by Renmin University of China in 2025)

2023–2024  “Tea Culture in Dickens’s Dombey and Son and Bleak House from a Global History Perspective” (National level).

2022–2023  “Representations and Implications of Vulnerable Groups in Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year from an Ethical Perspective” (National level).

2022–2023  “Conan Doyle’s Fiction and Its Exploration of the Application and Influence of Chemistry in Criminal Investigation” (University level).

2021–2022  “Woolf’s Conception of Reality in The Waves from the Perspective of Early 20th-Century Revolutions in Physics” (National level).

2021–2022  “The Influence of Buddhist Thought on Woolf’s Writing: A Case Study of To the Lighthouse” (National level).

2020–2021  “The Influence of Chinoiserie on 18th-Century British Culture: Porcelain and Female Subjectivity in The Rape of the Lock” (University level).

2018–2019  “Exploring the Fusion of Chinese and Western Cultures through the Humor of Zhuangzi and Oscar Wilde” (School level) (final paper published in Masterpieces Review, 2020).

3. Industry-Funded Project

2023–2024  Principal Investigator, Chemical Product Translation Project.

Conference Presentations

1. International Conference Presentations

2026  “From Horoscope to Soundscape: Virginia Woolf’s Cosmic Listening in The Waves,” International Joint Conference on Literature and Science(hybrid), Ghent University, Belgium.

2025  “Buddhist Emptiness and the Emotion of Peace in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts,” 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, King’s College London and University of Sussex, UK.

2024  “Quantum Reality and Mystical Musings on Impermanence in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,” British Association for Modernist Studies (hybrid), University of Leeds.

2024  “Purity and Discipline: Decadents’ Perception of Dirt and Victorian Medical Discourse,” International Society for Nineteenth-Century Studies(hybrid), Durham University.

2024  “Quantum Reality and Mystical Musings on Precarity in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,” International Joint Conference on Literature and Science(hybrid), University of Birmingham.

2023  “Attunement to the Nonhuman: Mysticism of Mundane Objects in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,” 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Woolf & Ecologies II.

2. Keynote Speech, Domestic Conference

“Mysticism of the Material: Daoist Thought and Ecological Aesthetics in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,” National Conference on “Literature and Aesthetics,” Hehai University, 2024.

3. Representative Parallel-Session Presentations, Domestic Conferences

Presentation at the Foreign Literature Young Scholars Forum on “Foreign Literary Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (2025).

Presentation at the National Conference on “Narrative and Media,” Peking University, (2024).

Presentation at the National Symposium on “Literature and Atmosphere” (2024).

Presentation at the “English Literature and China” Academic Conference of Tsinghua University (2024)

Presentation at the National Symposium on “Literature and Life” (2024).

Presentation at the National Symposium on “Literature and Mobility” (2023).

Presentation at the National Annual Conference on British Literature (2023).

Honors Received

2026 Outstanding Guiding Teacher Award in the 31st "21st Century Cup" National English-Speaking Competition (Provincial and Ministerial Level Second Prize)

2026 Outstanding Guiding Teacher Award in the 8th "SFLEP Cup" National College Student Energy and Power Humanities Academic English Forum (National Level Second Prize)

2025  Outstanding Advisor Award, Beijing College Students’ English Public Speaking Contest (Municipal Third Prize).

2024  “Top Ten Teachers” (21st), Beijing University of Chemical Technology (University Award).

2024  Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Beijing Municipal Education Commission (Municipal Award).

2023  Outstanding Advisor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology Discipline Competitions (University Award).

2023  Outstanding Advisor, National Finals of the “FLTRP Cup” English Debating Competition (National First Prize).

2023  Outstanding Advisor, North China Regional Semi-Finals of the “FLTRP Cup” English Debating Competition (Municipal Second Prize).

2023  Outstanding Advisor, National English Public Speaking Contest (“FLTRP Cup”) (National Second Prize).

2023  Beijing Outstanding Advisor Award, National English Public Speaking Contest (“FLTRP Cup”) (Municipal Special Prize).

2023  Outstanding Advisor, National Intercultural Competence Contest (“FLTRP Cup”) (Municipal Second Prize).

2023  Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Beijing Municipal Education Commission (Municipal Award).

2020  Outstanding Class Advisor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (University Award).

2016  “Weiming Star Reader,” Peking University.

2014  First Prize, Doctoral Student Forum, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University.

2013  Outstanding Class Advisor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (University Award).

2011  Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, Beijing Foreign Studies University.

2010  First Prize, Graduate Student Forum and Academic Frontiers Symposium, Beijing Foreign Studies University.