Name: LI Yun
Title: Professor/Doctor
Research area: English Language and Literature
Education
2007: Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at Sun Yat-sen University
2004: M.A. in English Language and Literature at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
1995: B.A. in English Language and Literature at Hubei Normal University
Professional positions held
September 2015- : Professor of English, South China University of Techonology
August 2015-August 2016: BBRG-Chau Hoi Shuen Scholar in Residence, University of California-Berkeley, leader of research program, Sexuality and Self-Identity in the Autobiographical Narrative of Female Chinese Migrant Workers
May 2014-: Leader of research program, “Ethical Literary Criticism: A Historicist Perspective”, funded by The National Social Science Fund of China
May 2014-: Leader of research program, “Strategies Used by Women's Federation in Women's Movement”, with Guangdong Institute of Women’s Studies
May 2013-May 2014: Leader of research program, “Renegotiating a Subject of Praxis: A Feminist Reflection on the ‘Spectres of Marx’ in Contemprary Literary Theory”, funded by Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, South China University of Techonology
March2013-2015: Director of English Department in South China University of Technology
Jan. 2012-Dec. 2012: Leader of research program, “Gender Images in Online Games for Children”, with Guangdong Institute of Women’s Studies
May 2011-May 2012: Leader of research program, “Poesy Praxis in Comtemporary Literary Theory”, funded by Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, South China University of Techonology
Jan. 2012-: Director of the Institute of Gender Studies of South China University of Technology
March 2010-: Teacher of English, specialized in literary and cultural studies (Foreign Language School, South China University of Techonology)
2007-2010: Post-doctorate Researcher in Philosophy (Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University)
2007: Leader of research program, “Marx and Semiotics”, funded by Chinese Post-doctorate Science Foundation
1995-2001: Teacher of English (Hubei Engineering University)
Publications
Books:
LI Yun. Reconstructing Feminine Subjectivity in the Horizon of Negative Dialectics, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2012.
Translations:
LI Yun. Trans. Prometheus Bound: The Mythic Structure of Karl Marx’s Scientific Thinking. Shanghai: East Chinanormal University Press, 2014.
XU Chang-fu, LI Yun et al. Trans. Analytical and Dialectical Marxism. Chongqing: Chongqing Publishing House, 2010.
Li Yun and Su Meng. Trans. On Riley River. Shuofang 2016(8).
Li Yun and Su Meng. Trans. The Circuit. Shuofang 2016(5).
Li Yun and Wei Lina. Trans. Dark Times. Shuofang 2016(3).
Li Yun and Wei Lina. Trans. Wine. Shuofang 2015(5).
Li Yun. Trans. The Woman.Shuofang 2014(12).
Articles:
Li Yun. Labor, Alienation and Aesthetics: Perspectives from Chinese Female Worker Poets.The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies 14 (4): 110-115.
Li Yun. The Absence of Futur(ity): Ethico-Politics After Theory and Its Impasse. Foreign Literature 2016 (4).
Li Yun. Post-Subject Ethical Impasse: On the Theme of Loss in Alice Monro’s “Runaway”. Contemporary Foreign Literature, 2015 (1).
LI Yun and Xiao Ran. Alice Munro’s Double Disillusions on Ethics of the Subject and Ethics of the Other. Journal of Hangzhou Dianzi University, 2014 (12).
KE Qianting, LI Yun et al. Alice Munro's Art of Fiction. Creation and Criticism, 2014 (4).
LI Yun. History and Femininity: Prostitutes in Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Literature & Art Studies, 2013 (11).
LI Yun. Feminine Subjectivity after Deconstructionism. Journal of Guangxi University, 2012 (1).
LI Yun. Review of Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.” Human Rights, 2011 (4).
LI Yun. Labour, Value and Language: How Marx is Different from Saussure. Guangxi Social Science, 2011 (10).
LI Yun: A Productive Critique on Production: How Kristeva Contributes to Post-Marx Politics. International Journal of Decision Ethics (Fall 2009).
LI Yun. “Nihilism, Language and Creativity: Differentiating Nietzsche from Derrida.” Modern Philosophy, 2009(3).
LI Yun: Erasing Differences: A Reflection on Post-feminist View of Literature. Foreign Literature, 2008(3).
LI Yun: A Negative Dialectics of Subjectivity: How Deconstructionism is Misleading. Modern Philosophy, 2008(2).
LI Yun: Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation. [Trans.] Modern Philosophy, 2008 (2).
Li Yun. Butler’s Trouble: An Adornian Critique on Gender Trouble. ContemporaryForeign Literature, 2006 (2).
LI Yun. History, Women and Time: Kristeva on Temporality. Jinan Journal, 2006 (5).
Conference publications：
Keynote. Ethical Literary Criticism: A Historicist Perspective. International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism 6th Conference (October 1-7, 2016, Tartu).
Keynote. A Middle-Class Misidentification: Self-Identification in the Autobiographical Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Female Migrant Worker. 2016 Conference on Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (March 18,2016, Washington DC).
Presentation. Labor, Alienation and Aesthetics: Perspectives from Chinese Female Worker Poets. Fourteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities(June 8-10 2016, Chicago).
Presentation. Deconstruction Marx?: Rereading White Mythology. Marx and Romanticism (November 2012, Guangzhou).
