Yang Jincai

Yang Jincai earned his BA in English at Soochow University in 1985. In 1989 he came to Nanjing University and studied for an MA in British and American Literature. He then continued his Ph. D. program in British and American Literature and completed it between 1994 and 1998.

Yang Jincai is currently Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature, Dean of the School of Foreign Studies, Director of the Institute of Foreign Literature at Nanjing University, and the chief editor of the Chinese noted Journal of Contemporary Foreign Literature. He studied as a special student (1996-1998) and worked as a Visiting Scholar (2007-2008) at Harvard University in the United States, and was Visiting Scholar at the University of Hong Kong and Australian National University on several occasions. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including prizes for Research in Philosophy and Social Sciences by both Jiangsu Provincial Government and the Ministry of Education. Professor Yang specializes in British and American literature, and has contributed to various journals at home and abroad a huge range of essays and articles. He has published many academic books, including Herman Melville and Imperialism: A Cultural Critique of Melville’s Polynesian Trilogy (Nanjing UP, 2001), A New Literary History of the United States, Vol. III (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2002) and American Renaissance Authors: A Political and Cultural Reading (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2009). He translated and edited Typee, Omoo and Mardi (Culture and Art Press, 2006).

Contact 

E-mail:jcyang@nju.edu.cn

Contact Address: School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China