Name: LIU Kun |
Professional title: Lecturer |
Faculty: English Department |
EMAIL: lkun828@whu.edu.cn |
PhD: Wuhan University |
MA: Hubei University |
BA: Hubei University |
Courses Taught
Courses for English Majors:
Contemporary College English 1,2,3,4.
Basic English Writing,
Extensive English Reading,
English Listening,
English Newspaper and Magazine,
A survey of the UK and the USA,
An Introduction to Literature,
Western Etiquette Survey,
Cross-cultural Communication.
Liberal course for all undergraduates in Wuhan University:
Etiquette Guidelines in Cross-cultural Communication
Research interest
Modern novels of the UK and USA;
Study of the popular culture in the West;
Etiquette in Cross-cultural Communication.
Academic Experiences
2012-2013: visiting scholar in IUPUI.
2019 summer holiday: training of English Pedagogy in the Language Center of Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.
Publications
—— Existential Anxiety of American Adam in the Affluent Society: Study of American Road Novels in the 1950s, dissertation to be published, forthcoming.
——My Hand Narrating My Heart: On Essays of Montaigne and His American “Direct Progeny” Emerson,Journal of France Study, 2018(2):42-52.
——Apocalypto from“ Grenzsituationen”: On the Landscape of Fear in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, 2016(2):Yangtze River Academic 2016(2):89-95.
——The Lady Carried off by Heterotopia: Interpretation of the Mansion in A Rose for Emily, Masterpieces Review,2015(6):116-118.
——Nonverbal Language of Costumes:on the Game in Pamela,Journal of Yancheng Teachers University( Humanities & Social Sciences) 2015(01): 95-99.
——An Outline of British and American Literature. (2009); ed., Science and Technology of Huazhong University publishing house.
——Poetic Images Within Chinese Characters: on Ezra Pound’s Intoxication of Chinese Characters, Canto, The World Literature Critcism,2007,10.
——Improvements in the Teaching of Extensive Reading, A Forum Anthology: Selective Articles from the Cross-Culture Studies,2006,9.
——On Jack London’s Contributions to American Short Stories, Wuhan University Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2003,9 .
——Jack London---A Pivotal Between the Preceding and the Subsequent American Literature, English Teaching and Studies in Chinese Universities, 2001,9.
——Implications Loaded Within Discourse Context, Hubei University Journal,1998,11.
Research project:
201409-201809, project leader, On the Construction and Teaching of the Course The History of American Thought for English Majors, completed, Teaching reform and research projects in Wuhan University, reference number: JG201406.