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 forChinese Comparative Literature and Foreign Literature Review.His best known books areAn Introduction to Comparative Literature(co-author,1989,2006,2010) andFrom Comparative Literature to Comparative Culture(2011),etc.He has translated important works includingTheory of Literatureby René Wellek (co-trans.,1984,2005,2010,2017),Comparative Literature and Literary Theory:Survey and Introductionby Ulrich Weisstein(trans.,1987),A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theoryby Raman Selden,Peter Widdowson,and Peter Brooker (trans.,2007),The Postmodern Turnby Ihab Hassan (trans.,2015),andDiscriminations:Further Concepts of Criticismby René Wellek (co-trans.,2015),etc.He has edited influential textbooks includingPostcolonialism(co-ed.,1999),From Modernism to Postmodernism(co-ed.,2002),Cultural Studies:A Reader(co-ed.,2003),andA Brief History of Foreign Literary Theory(ed.,2005),etc.北京师范大学比较文学与英美文学教授，中国比较文学学会终身成就奖获得者之一。曾是伦敦大学伯克贝克学院中英友好奖学金访问学者、两届美国富布莱特学者，曾任国际比较文学学会理事、中国比较文学学会副会长，担任《中国比较文学》编委、《外国文学评论》编委。主要著作有：《比较文学概论》（合著）、《从比较文学到比较文化》等；译著：《文学理论》（合译）、《比较文学与文学理论》《当代文学理论导读》《后现代转向》《辨异：续<批评的诸种概念>》（合译）等；编著：《后殖民主义文化理论》（合编）、《从现代主义到后现代主义》（合编）、《文化研究读本》（合编）、《外国文论简史》等。
