Mei Xiaoyun, Ph.D, Professor

Born on Nov.27, 1954

Mainly engaged in research on Comparative literature and world literature.

 

Education       Visiting Scholar (Freeman Foundation), 2004-2005

University of Illinois, Urbana—Champaign(UIUC)

Illinois , U.S.A.

Ph.D., July, 2003

Northwest University , Xi’an , Shaanxi

Visiting Scholar, 1998—1999

University of Delhi , Delhi , India

Further Education, 1984—1985

Beijing Normal University , Beijing

B.A.，July，1982

Jiangxi University，Nanchang, Jiangxi

Experience      School of Chinese Language and Literature

Northwest University , from 1995 up to now

Xi’an Conservatory of Music, 1987—1995

Department of Chinese Language and Literature

Jiangxi University, 1982—1987

 

Publications     Cultural Rootlessness, Shaanxi People’s Publishing

House, Xi’an , 2003

“Conceptions of Image in Salman Rushdie’s

Midnight’s Children in the Postcolonial Context”,

Journal of Shenzhen University , Vol.28 No.5, 2011

“V.S.Naipaul’s Thought and Hinduism Existentialism”

Jiangxi Social Sciences, Vol.31, No.3, 2011

“Vowing and Watching: Contrastive study of Zhang Chengzhi’s and V.S.Naipaul’s Islamic Writing”,

Foreign Literature Studies, No.5, 2009

“Beyond Names”,

Journal of Northwest University ,Vol.38, No,1, 2008

“Cultural Suspension and the Decline of the Colonial Enclave”, Foreign Literature Review, No.3, 2004

“V.S.Naipaul: The Tragic Song of a Rootless Man”,

Foreign Literature Review, No.1. 2002

 

Activities      Executive member of the committee, The Committee of

Foreign Literature, The Chinese Society of Education

Vice President, Shaanxi Foreign Literature Association

 

Awards        Third Prize of the Eighth Shaanxi Provincial Social

Sciences’ Outstanding Achievement, 2007

Second Prize of the Seventh Shaanxi Provincial Social

Sciences’ Outstanding Achievement, 2004

Excellent Research Paper Award by Foreign Literature

Studies, 2003