Xueying Zhou, PhD of English and American Literature at Peking University(2021), visiting scholar at Exeter University(2015-2016), associate professor at the English Department in the College of Humanities and Law, BUCT. Since 2011, she taught courses of “British Literary History,” “American Literary History,” “Anglo-American Modernist Literature,” “Audio-Visual-Oral English (I-IV),” “Teaching Practice,” “Basic English (II, III, IV),” “English to Chinese Translation,” “Interpreting,” “Legal Translation,” “Appreciation of British and American Films,” etc. Her current research areas include British Aestheticism and Decadence, Anglo-American Modernist Literature, Victorian Literature, Western Literary Theories.

Representative Accomplishments:

1.       Academic Papers

2024: “The Ideology of the Aesthetic and Global Class Relations—An Interview with Professor Zhou Xiaoyi,” Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

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

2023: “‘The Connoisseur of Chaos’: Wallace Stevens’ Poetics of Chaos and His View of Metaphor,” Foreign Language and Literature Studies.

2023: “Quantum Reality and Mystical Musings on Precarity in Woolf's To the Lighthouse,” The Modernist Review.

2023: “Controversies and Innovations in the Curriculum of Anglo-American Literary History,” Journal of Mudanjiang College of Education.

2020: “Walter Pater’s Decadent Fashioning of Mona Lisa and the Aesthetics of Modernity,” Foreign Languages and Cultures.

2019: “Metacognitive Strategies in Middlemarch and Their Ethical Significance,” Foreign Languages and Literature.

2014: “An Overview of Multiplicity of Elizabethan Period under the Analysis of New Historicist Interpretation of Hamlet,” Journal of Language and Literature Studies

2010: “Recreating the Maternal and the Poetic Space: Kristeva’s Critique of Lacan,” Journal of Language and Literature Studies.

2010: “Interpreting Lukács' Theory of the Novel,” Journal of Language and Literature Studies.

2010: “On T.S. Eliot’s Philosophy of Language,” Literary Education.

2010: “Irish Political Context and Ethical Tension in Poems of Seamus Heaney,” Journal of Changchun University of Technology.

2.       Edited Works and Translation

2016: The editing of A Guide to Modern English Classics (Section for Poetry), Beijing: Chemical Industry Press.

2013: Transcription of “Dialogues: The Film Industry of the Third Reich,” published in Reading, Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company.

2013: Translation of A Practical Guide to Contemporary Criticism (Chapters on Western Marxism and New Criticism) (50,000 words in total), Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

3.       Presentations at International Conferences

2024: “Quantum Reality and Mystical Musings on Impermanence in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” BAMS Conference 2024: “Ephemeral Modernisms” (sponsored by the British Association of Modernist Studies and organized by University of Leeds).

2024: “Purity and Discipline: Decadents’ Perception of Dirt and Victorian Medical Discourse.” INCSA Conference 2024: “The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal” (sponsored by International Nineteenth-century Studies Association and organized by Durham University).

2024: “Quantum Reality and Mystical Musings on Precarity in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science (sponsored by British Society for Literature and Science, European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts and Commission on Science and Literature; organized by University of Birmingham).

2023: “Attunement to the Nonhuman: Mysticism of Mundane Objects in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” 32th International Virginia Woolf Symposium — “Woolf & Ecologies II” (sponsored and organized by International Virginia Woolf Society).

4.       Educational Reform Projects

2023-2024: Participation in the University-level Teaching Reform Project - Model Course for Integrating Ideological and Political Education into Curriculum

2023-2025: Participation in the University-level Teaching Reform Project - Research and Practice on the Teaching Design of 'Curriculum Ideological and Political Education' for 'Academic Writing' under the Context of New Liberal Arts Construction

5.       Supervision of Students’ Research Projects

2024-2025: “Law and Affect: On Poetic Justice and Affective Construction in Dickens’ Bleak House”

2024-2025: “From Vera to A Woman of No Importance: The Evolution of Oscar Wilde’s Idea of Cultural Community”

2023-2024: “Tea Culture in Dickens’ Dombey and Son and Bleak House from the Perspective of Global History”

2023-2024: “The Depiction of Chinese Material Culture in Mary Gaunt’s A Woman in China, 1913”

2022-2023: “An Ethical Study of Defoe’s Representations of Vulnerable Groups in A Journal of the Plague Year” (National Level)

2022-2023: “The Impact of Conan Doyle’s Exploration of Chemistry in His Novels on the Forensic Science” (University Level)

2021-2022: “An Exploration of the View of Reality in Woolf's The Waves from the Perspective of Early 20th Century Physics” (National Level)

2021-2022: “The Influence of Buddhist Thought on Woolf's Creation—A Case Study of To the Lighthouse” (National Level)

2020-2021: “The Influence of Chinoiserie on 18th Century British Culture—A Study of the Relationship Between Porcelain and Female Subjectivity in The Rape of the Lock” (University Level)

2018-2019: “Exploring the Fusion of Eastern and Western Culture through the Dao of Wilde’s Humor”(College Level) (The project paper was published in Masterpieces Review, Issue 11, 2020)

6.       Awards

2024: The 21st Honorary Title of “Top Ten Teachers” at Beijing University of Chemical Technology

2024: Supervisor’s Award of Excellent Graduation Thesis for Bachelor’s Degree at Beijing University of Chemical Technology

2024: The Honorary Award of “Outstanding Learner” at the 2024 Foreign Literature Teaching and Research Workshop of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP).

2023: Excellent Mentor Award for the First Prize in the National Finals of the FLTRP Cup English Debate Competition

2023: Excellent Mentor Award for the Second Prize in the National Finals of the FLTRP Cup English Speech Competition

2023: Excellent Mentor Award for the Second Prize in the North China Regional Finals of the FLTRP Cup English Debate Competition

2023: Excellent Mentor Award for the Second Prize in the Intercultural Competence Competition in Beijing

2023: Excellent Mentor Award for the Third Prize in the Beijing College Student English Speech Competition

2023: Supervisor’s Award of Excellent Graduation Thesis for Bachelor’s Degree at Beijing University of Chemical Technology

2023: Excellent Thesis Supervisor Award for Undergraduates’ Thesis in Beijing

2022: Supervisor’s Award of Excellent Graduation Thesis for Bachelor’s Degree at Beijing University of Chemical Technology

2020: Excellent Class Advisor Award at Beijing University of Chemical Technology

2018: Second Prize in the FLTRP English Teaching Workshop Competition Based on the Output-Oriented Approach

2016 “Weiming Reader Star” Award, Peking University

2014 First Prize in the Graduates’ Forum at School of Foreign Languages, Peking University

2013 Excellent Class Advisor Award at Beijing University of Chemical Technology

2011 Excellent Master’s Thesis Award at Beijing Foreign Studies University

2010 First Prize in the Graduates’ Forum of Academic Frontiers Symposium at Beijing Foreign Studies University