Education
Ph.D. in English, The University of Melbourne, December 2021
Work Experience
July 2024 – Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University
April 2022 – June 2024
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua University (Funded by China Postdoctoral International Exchange Program - Incoming Program)
Research Interests
Modern and contemporary English women’s travel literature, Sino-foreign literary and cultural relations, global modernism, affect and mobility studies in modern and contemporary literature
Research Grants
Principal Investigator, National Social Science Fund - Youth Project, “Fashioning Self and Other in British Women’s Travel Narratives of China” (2023–Present)
The 16th Special Funding Project (Mid-term) of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2023–2024)
The 74th General Funding Project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2023–2024)
Courses Taught
Women’s Literary Traditions, Victorian Literature, English Classic Reading, Literary and Cultural Theories in the 21st Century
Publications
“Decolonizing Friendship: Emotions and Interracial Intimacy in Dorothea Hosie's China Narrative," Journal of Postcolonial Writing, forthcoming.
“Walking Mobility in Jane Austen’s Novels,” Foreign Literatures, no. 2, 2025, pp. 55–66.
“Vertical Travel in Florence Ayscough’s Yangtze River Narrative,” Comparative Literature in China, no. 2, 2025, pp 185-204.
“Canine Companionship, Race and Anthropomorphism in Florence Ayscough’s The Autobiography of A Chinese Dog (1926).” Beastly Modernisms, Edinburgh UP, 2023, pp. 56–72.
“Cosmopolitanism, Comparison and Affect in Isabella Bird’s The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899),” English Studies, vol. 103, no. 6 (2022): 920-939.
“Material Culture, Memory and Mobility in Emily Georgiana Kemp’s Travel Narratives of China,” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 48, no. 2 (2022): 69-95.
“Disease, Professionalization and Cosmopolitan Encounters: Anne Walter Fearn as a Woman Doctor in China,” Women’s Writing, vol 29, no. 4 (2022): 600-615.
“Emotions, Race and Gendered Mobility in Mary Gaunt’s Narrative of China,” Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal, vol. 50, no. 7 (2021): 727-746.
“Resistance and Revival: The Figure of Trickster in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller,” Fudan Forum on Foreign Languages and Literature, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 62-67.
Contact
Email: Wujuanjuan@tsinghua.edu.cn
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
