Education
PhD (2018) in English Language and Literature, Peking University, with excellent graduate honors of both the municipal of Beijing and Peking University.
MA (2012) & BA (2009) in English Language and Literature, Sichuan International Studies University.
Joint-PhD (2015–2016) in English Literature, University of Pennsylvania (USA).
Work Experience
Associate Professor of English Literature (2023–Present), Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University.
Associate Professor (2020–2023) & Assistant Professor (2018–2020) of English Literature, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University.
Vising Scholar (2023/01–2023/02), Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (USA).
Post-Doctorate (2019–2021), Comparative Literature & Film Studies, Yale University (USA).
Research Interest
My Research is predominantly in Modern and Contemporary British Fictions and Film. My First Chinese monograph, Transmedia Aesthetic Modernity(2020), explores Kazuo Ishiguro’s career-long fascination with cinema, and its influence on his novels. I am currently working on two monographs: First is titled Ishiguro’s Manuscript and Novel Studies, and thinks through the novelist’s paper archive the ways in which Ishiguro develops stories and narrative techniques; My second, The Screenplays and Novels in Contemporary British Writers’ Manuscripts, examines the notes, letters, drafts, and revisions of Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Julian Barnes, and Ian McEwan’s novels and screenplays, and reflect on the cinematic influence found in their novel thinking and writing process.
Publications
Monograph
2020- Transmedia Aesthetic Modernity: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Three Novels in Relation to Film [in Chinese], Beijing: China Social Science Press, Jul. 2020.
Book Sections
2023- Kazuo Ishiguro’s Film and Television Scriptwriting, in Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, eds. Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane, Manchester UP, Jan. 2023, 227–247.
2023- The Hidden Ghost Story: Ishiguro, Ugetsu, and Troubled English Belief, in Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro, eds. Takayuki Shonaka, Shinya Morikawa and Takahiro Mimura, Palgrave Macmillan, Jun. 2023 (forthcoming).
Journal Articles
2023-Kazuo Ishiguro’s Development of Stories through Film, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 64, Issue 3, A&HCI): 430–442.
2022- Adapting Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies (Vol.15, Issue 2, A&HCI): 207–227.
2022- (with Dudley Andrew) Fiction and Film in Interaction: An Interview with Dudley Andrew, Foreign Literature Studies (Vol. 6, 2022, CSSCI), 1–14.
2021-Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant as Thought Experiment, CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History (Vol. 49, Issue 1, A&HCI): 105–134.
2022- Screen’s Seduction of Kazuo Ishiguro: Screenwriting in Relation to Novel Writing [in Chinese], Foreign Literatures (Vol. 2, 2022, CSSCI): 47–56.
2022- Kazuo Ishiguro and Postwar Japanese Films [in Chinese], Fudan Forum on Foreign Languages and Literature (Spring, 2022, CSSCI): 129–134.
2022- Kazuo Ishiguro’s Early Ghost Stories, Films, and Unreliable Narrative [in Chinese], New Perspectives on World Literature (Vol. 3, 2022, CSSCI): 96–104.
2021-Kazuo Ishiguro and the Empty Space in Yasujiro Ozu’s Film [in Chinese], Foreign Literature Studies (Vol. 43, No. 2, CSSCI): 94–103.
2021-The Buried Giant’s Parallel Trajectories of Narration in Relation to the Film Stalker [in Chinese], Journal of Northeastern University, Social Science (Vol. 23, No.1, CSSCI): 121–126.
2020-The Filmic Texture of Memory: Unreliable Narrative in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go [in Chinese], Contemporary Foreign Literature (Vol. 1, 2020, CSSCI): 98–104.
2020-Transmedia Aesthetic Modernity: History and Possible Future of Literature and Film Studies [in Chinese], Journal of Beijing Film Academy (Vol. 1, 2020, CSSCI): 47–55.
2019-Grasping the Godly and Ungodly of the Present Moment: Rereading the Boatman in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant [in Chinese], Foreign Literature (Vol. 4, 2019, CSSCI): 100–108.
2019-The Allure of Moving Images: Unmasking Roland Barthes [in Chinese], Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (Vol. 1, 2019, CSSCI): 55–62.
2019-The Buried Giant: Remaking the Ghost through Mizoguchi’s Film [in Chinese], New Perspectives on World Literature (Vol. 1, 2019, CSSCI): 23–29.
2018-The Tainted Decisions: A Conversation of Kazuo Ishiguro with Donald Stone [in Chinese], New Perspectives on World Literature (Vol. 1, 2018, CSSCI): 12–19.
2017- Reading Never Let Me Go’s Ellipses and Mono No Aware through Films [in Chinese], Journal of Zhejiang International Studies University (Vol. 6, 2017): 60–67.
2017- Why Can Anyone Say Anything About Ishiguro [in Chinese], The Paper (Daily Newspaper), Oct. 6, 2017.
2015-he Neutral Realism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant [in Chinese], Foreign Literature (Vol. 6, 2015, CSSCI): 75–81.
Translation:
2017- (translation of Roger Cardinal) Thinking Through Things: The Presence of Objects in the Early Films of Jan Svankmajor [in Chinese], Film Art (Vol. 4, 2017, CSSCI): 89–96.
Research Grants
2022–Present, National Social Science Fund of China for Regular Project, “The Screenplays and Novels in Contemporary British Writers’ Manuscripts” (CNY 200,000)
2021–2022, Fujian Province’s Social Science Fund for Young Scholar Project, “The Screenwriting in the Kazuo Ishiguro Paper Archive” (CNY 30,000)
2020–2023, Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (USA) for the project, “A Study of the Relation Between Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels and World Films” (USD 4,000). This world-renowned manuscript archive center selected and hosted 56 scholars worldwide from all areas of humanities in 2020.
2019–2020, National Social Science Fund of China for Monograph Publication, “Transmedia Aesthetic Modernity: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Three Novels in Relation to Film” (CNY 200,000)
2018–2021, Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities of China, Xiamen University (CNY 100,000)
Awards (selected)
2021, Third Prize of Fujian Social Science Excellent Achievement Award
2018, Excellent Doctoral Graduate Honor of the municipal of Beijing & of Peking University
2018, Excellent Dissertation Award of Peking University
2016, National Doctoral Scholarship of China
Courses Taught
Contact Information
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084
Email: annieshen@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
