Featured Scholar

LIU Xiangyu is Professor of Comparative Literature and British/American Literature at Beijing Normal University (1982–).A recipient of the CCLA Lifetime Achievement Award,he was also a SSBFS Visiting Scholar at Birkbeck College,University of London,and has twice won the Fulbright Scholar Grant.He had served as a member of ICLA Executive Committee,vice president of CCLA,and is currently Advisory Board Member for

Chinese Comparative Literature

and

Foreign Literature Review

.His best known books are

An Introduction to Comparative Literature

(co-author,1989,2006,2010) and

From Comparative Literature to Comparative Culture

(2011),etc.He has translated important works including

Theory of Literature

by René Wellek (co-trans.,1984,2005,2010,2017),

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory:Survey and Introduction

by Ulrich Weisstein(trans.,1987),

A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

by Raman Selden,Peter Widdowson,and Peter Brooker (trans.,2007),

The Postmodern Turn

by Ihab Hassan (trans.,2015),and

Discriminations

:

Further Concepts of Criticism

by René Wellek (co-trans.,2015),etc.He has edited influential textbooks including

Postcolonialism

(co-ed.,1999),

From Modernism to Postmodernism

(co-ed.,2002),

Cultural Studies:A Reader

(co-ed.,2003),and

A Brief History of Foreign Literary Theory

(ed.,2005),etc.

北京師范大學比較文學與英美文學教授，中國比較文學學會終身成就獎獲得者之一。曾是倫敦大學伯克貝克學院中英友好獎學金訪問學者、兩屆美國富布萊特學者，曾任國際比較文學學會理事、中國比較文學學會副會長，擔任《中國比較文學》編委、《外國文學評論》編委。主要著作有：《比較文學概論》（合著）、《從比較文學到比較文化》等；譯著：《文學理論》（合譯）、《比較文學與文學理論》《當代文學理論導讀》《后現(xiàn)代轉向》《辨異：續(xù)<批評的諸種概念>》（合譯）等；編著：《后殖民主義文化理論》（合編）、《從現(xiàn)代主義到后現(xiàn)代主義》（合編）、《文化研究讀本》（合編）、《外國文論簡史》等。