Feng Lu
About Me
I am a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. I am also a reader and illustration editor at the Short Fiction Literary Journal.Education
MA Literature, University of Essex
BE Architecture, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Contact Me
Lu.Feng@warwick.ac.uk
Office Hours
Friday 10-11 - FAB5.31
Twitter: @lufffeng
Thesis Description
My Ph.D. thesis, Fictional Narratives and Rivers: Late Imperial Chinese Literature as World Literature, examines how Chinese fictional narratives from the 18th to early 20th centuries are shaped by the riverine environments of China. It suggests that, unlike European literature which often features a motif of adventure at sea, Chinese literatures are rooted in a riverine environments of canals, lakes, ponds, rivers, and irrigation channels, and are characterised by poetic features that emphasise spatial and interstitial composition, as well as a water-land relationship that is entangled rather than separate. My thesis seeks to provide a local, environmental and early modern viewpoint to the study of world literature.
My thesis is supervised by Caitlin Vandertop and co-supervised by Anne Gerritsen.
Research Interests
Literary Geographies, Comparative Early Modernities, Environmental Humanities, Narrative Theories, World Literature
Awards and Scholarships
The Wolfson Foundation Scholarship, 2021-2024
MA Dissertation Prize, University of Essex, 2021
Academic Excellence Scholarship, University of Essex, 2019-2020
Conference Papers
- December 2023 (upcoming), 'An Archipelagic Thinking on China', organised by Global China Research Centre at the University of Exeter.
- July 2023, 'A Cross-Cultural Reading of the Beautiful Frozen Worlds', at London Conference in Critical Thought, hosted by London Metropolitan University.
- May 2023, 'Living in A Frozen World: Reading Water in The Last Days of the World and Bingshan xuehai', at Culture and Global Responsibility: Rethinking Habitually in the Age of the Anthropocene, hosted by the University of Warwick.
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