Education
PhD (2018) in English Language and Literature, Peking University, with excellent graduate honors of both the municipal of Beijing and Peking University.
Joint-PhD (2015–2016) in English Literature, University of Pennsylvania (USA).
Work Experience
Associate Professor of English Literature (2023–Present), Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University.
Associate Professor & Assistant Professor of English Literature (2018–2023), College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University.
Post-Doctorate (2019–2021), Comparative Literature & Film Studies, Yale University (USA).
Vising Scholar (2023/01–02), Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (USA).
Research Interest
My Research is predominantly in Modern and Contemporary British Fictions and Film. My First Chinese monograph, Transmedia Aesthetic Modernity (2020), explores Kazuo Ishiguro’s career-long fascination with cinema, and its influence on his novels. I am currently working on two monographs: First is titled Ishiguro’s Manuscript and Novel Studies, and thinks through the novelist’s paper archive the ways in which Ishiguro develops stories and narrative techniques; My second, Fictions and Films in Contemporary British Writers’ Manuscripts, examines the notes, letters, drafts, and revisions of Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Julian Barnes, and Ian McEwan’s novels and screenplays, and reflects on the cinematic influence found in their novel thinking and writing process.
Publications
Monograph
2020- Transmedia Aesthetic Modernity: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Three Novels in Relation to Film [in Chinese], Beijing: China Social Science Press, Jul. 2020.
Book Sections
2024- The Hidden Ghost Story: Ishiguro, Ugetsu, and Troubled English Belief, in Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro, eds. Takayuki Shonaka, Shinya Morikawa and Takahiro Mimura, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 109–130.
2023- Kazuo Ishiguro’s Film and Television Scriptwriting, in Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, eds. Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane, Manchester UP, Jan. 2023, 227–247.
Journal Articles(selected)
2024- Affective Atmosphere of Obtuse Meaning: Sentimentality and Memory in Roland Barthes’s Reflections on Photography [in Chinese], Journal of Beijing Film Academy (Vol. 5, 2024, CSSCI): 25–34.
2024- Reviving from the Archive: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Modern Ghost Stories and Memory Writing, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, DOI:10.1080/00111619.2024.2308692.
2023-Kazuo Ishiguro’s Development of Stories through Film, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 64, Issue 3, A&HCI): 430–442.
2022- Adapting Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies (Vol.15, Issue 2, A&HCI): 207–227.
2021-Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant as Thought Experiment, CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History (Vol. 49, Issue 1, A&HCI): 105–134.
2021-Kazuo Ishiguro and the Empty Space in Yasujiro Ozu’s Film [in Chinese], Foreign Literature Studies (Vol. 43, No. 2, CSSCI): 94–103.
2020-The Filmic Texture of Memory: Unreliable Narrative in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go [in Chinese], Contemporary Foreign Literature (Vol. 1, 2020, CSSCI): 98–104.
2020-Transmedia Aesthetic Modernity: History and Possible Future of Literature and Film Studies [in Chinese], Journal of Beijing Film Academy (Vol. 1, 2020, CSSCI): 47–55.
2019-Grasping the Godly and Ungodly of the Present Moment: Rereading the Boatman in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant [in Chinese], Foreign Literatures (Vol. 4, 2019, CSSCI): 100–108.
2019-The Allure of Moving Images: Unmasking Roland Barthes [in Chinese], Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (Vol. 1, 2019, CSSCI): 55–62.
2015-The Neutral Realism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant [in Chinese], Foreign Literature (Vol. 6, 2015, CSSCI): 75–81.
Research Grants
2023–Present, Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program Grant for Humanities Study Project, “A Comparative Study of Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Cross-Media Writings.”
2022–Present, National Social Science Fund of China for Regular Project, “A Study of Film, Television and Fiction Writing in Contemporary British Writers’ Manuscripts.”
2021–2022, Fujian Province’s Social Science Fund for Young Scholar Project, “The Screenwriting in the Kazuo Ishiguro Paper Archive.”
2020–2023, Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (USA) for the project, “A Study of the Relation Between Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels and World Films.”
2019–2020, National Social Science Fund of China for Monograph Publication, “Transmedia Aesthetic Modernity: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Three Novels in Relation to Film.”
Awards (selected)
2021, Third Prize of Fujian Social Science Excellent Achievement Award
2018, Excellent Doctoral Graduate Honor of the municipal of Beijing & of Peking University
2018, Excellent Dissertation Award of Peking University
2016, National Doctoral Scholarship of China
Courses Taught
English Classics、English Speaking and Listening
Contact Information
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084
Email: annieshen@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
