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Dr Changying Shen
BA (Nanchang University), MA (Beijing Foreign Studies University), PhD (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
British Academy Visiting Fellow 2011-12
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Research Interests
Dr Changying Shen is an associate professor at School of English and International Studies in Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. She was awarded Fulbright Professional Associate scholarship in 2003 and studied for one year at the Department of African American Studies in Yale University. She attended Salzburg Global Seminar organized by American Studies Alumni Association to honor Emory Elliott in Austria in 2010. Her major interests are in African American literature, Caribbean-American women’s literature, and the themes of space, identity, transnationalism and diaspora. Her recent research project includes“Space and Culture in Paule Marshall’s fiction”(supported by Beijing Foreign Studies University). She's currently working on a research project “Paule Marshall and Caribbean Women's Studies”on a British Academy Visiting Scholarship 2011-12, which seeks to assess Marshall's attempts to negotiate her multiple identities and heritages in her fiction under a broader framework of postcolonial studies, as well as her dual role within both African American studies and Caribbean studies.
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Membership
China Association for the Study of American Literature,
Fulbright Alumni Association
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Recent Publications
“The Gendered Space in ‘The Chrysanthemums’ and ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’”(forthcoming)
Gender, Race, Class and Space: A Study of Four Contemporary American Novels by Black Women Writers. Monograph. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2008.
“Different Layers of Veils in W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil.” BFSU English Journal. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2008.
“Selina as a Wanderer in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones.” Foreign Literature 6 (2007): 92 – 100.
“The Expansion of Inner Space in Maud Martha.” Foreign Literature 2 (2006): 46-52.
