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.


Links

Wuhan University