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Profile of Associate Professor Tu Niangen

Date:2020-07-18 Click：

Name: Tu Niangen

Title: Associate Professor

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1. Introduction

Basic Information:

Tu Niangen, male, was born in Nanchang County, Jiangxi Province in November 1978. He earned his doctoral degree in Literature at Jiangxi Normal University, and since then has been engaged in the study of narratology and comparative literature. He is currently an associate professor and MA supervisor in the School of Foreign Languages of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics. His first academic monograph, A Study of Narrative Gap, was published in October 2017 and listed in the Social Sciences Library of Jiangxi Province. He won the 18th Outstanding Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Jiangxi Province in October 2019.

Tu Niangen is a music and film lover. In his spare time, he often listens to music, sings and plays the guitar. Every evening he watches a movie for half an hour before going to sleep.

From September 2018 to July 2019, he studied in Renmin University of China as a visiting scholar under the support of the project “Light of the West” of the CPC Organization Department.

2. Teaching Experience

Courses Taught:

College English

A Survey of British and American Literature

3. Research Achievements

Projects Hosted:

1. “On the Narrative Art of W. B. Yeats’s Poetry”, Humanities and Social Sciences Project of Jiangxi Colleges and Universities (2009-2012)

2. “On the Formation and Value of Narrative Gaps”, Social Science Planning Project of Jiangxi Province (2013-2015)

3. “Narrative Gaps in the Context of General Narratology”, Social Science Planning Project of Jiangxi Province (2015-2016)

4. “On Narrative Gap”, Humanities and Social Sciences Project of Jiangxi Colleges and Universities (2015-2016)

Projects Participated:

1. “Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Narrative Traditions”, Major Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China (2016-).

Papers:

1. “On the Filling of Narrative Gaps”, Jiangxi Social Sciences 6(2013):190-93.

2. “On Strategic Narrative Gaps”, Jiangxi Social Sciences 3(2015):109-114.

3. “A Shortcut of Narrative Communication: On the Rhetorical Value of Narrative Gaps.” Journal of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) 4(2015):92-99.

4. “Narrative Gap and Its Meaning Production Mechanism.” Journal of Northwest University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) 6(2015):62-66.

5. “On the Expression Mechanism of Narrative Gaps in Literary Texts” Dongyue Tribune 11(2016):40-47.