KAIWEI XIA
English Department, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University
E-mail: xenoxia@qq.com
Working Experience
2022– Lecturer, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University
Education
2017–21 PhD in English Language and Literature at Nanjing University. Dissertation title: “From Mixed Styles to the Real Synthesis: On Don DeLillo’s Symptomatic Realism.” Supervised by Prof. Dr. HE Ning.
2019–20 Visiting scholar to the Faculty of Art (English Unit of Literary Studies) of KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Supervisor Prof. Dr. Pieter VERMEULEN.
2015–17 M.A. in English Language and Literature at Nanjing University. Thesis title: “An Allegory of Disaster: Narrativity and Being in DeLillo’s Falling Man.” Supervised by Prof. Dr. DAN Hansong.
2010–14 B.A. in English (Pedagogical Orientation) at Hunan First Normal College. Research paper title: “On Henry James’ Writing Techniques in ‘The Jolly Corner’.” Supervised by Prof. WANG Chunhui.
Research Interests
Literary Concerns: British modernism, contemporary American novels, experimental novels
Theoretical Concerns: (post-)structuralism, psychoanalysis, narratology, fictionality
Publications
1. Journals
Xia, Kaiwei. “Poetic Rhetoric: The Object and Metaphor in ‘Rose-Coloured Teacups’.” Foreign Literatures 3 (2020): pp. 144–153.
Xia, Kaiwei. “Subject with-out Object: A Posthumanist Interpretation of Melancholia.” Foreign Literature 6 (2019): pp. 65–73.
2. Translation
Ø Books
Penelope Deutscher. How To Read Derrida. Trans. Xia Kaiwei. Beijing : Beijing United Publising Co. Ltd., 2021.
Frida Beckman. Gilles Deleuze. Trans. Xia Kaiwei. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2019.
Ø Chapters and paper
Yang, Lixin. “Virginia Woolf in China: Translation, Study, and Influence.” Trans. XIA Kaiwei. Chinese Semiotic Studies. (In publication)
Shen, Shuang. “Empson and Mu Dan: Modernism as ‘Complex Word’.” Trans. XIA Kaiwei. Eds. ZHOU Xian and CHEN Yong. in Cross-Cultural Research. Beijing: The Commercial P, 2020.
Presentations
Conference Presentations
Ø “Symptomatic Histoire, or Don DeLillo’s Realist Imagination.” International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies (ISFFS/SIRFF) Second International Conference (2022). Chicago: University of Chicago, Mar. 2022.
Ø “Systematic Entropy and the Temporal Sturcture of White Noise.” The Annual Conference of Foreign Literature and Writer Association of Jiangsu Province (2020). Zhenjiang: Jiangsu University, 4–6 Dec., 2020.
Ø “Post-realism and Pastiche: Don DeLillo’s Symptomatic Writing.” Panel address. VAL-symposium 2019: Modernismestudies––Studying Modernism. Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 22 November, 2019.
Ø “Nameless Imagination: A. S. Byatt’s Object-Oriented Poetics.” Panel address (paper admitted). Knowledge and Experience: Foreign Studies of Linguistics, Literature and Translation. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University, 22–23 June, 2019. (First prize)
Ø “Melancholia, Fetish, and Writing as Reifying Technē.” Panel address (paper anthologized). Annual Conference of the Association of Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art in China & The Forum for Young Scholars: “Material, Media and Technology: The New Direction of Contemporary Literary Theories Studies”. Changsha: Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 16–18 Nov., 2018.
Ø “Narrative Lines and String Theory: The Comforters’ Contingent Reality.” Panel address (paper admitted). Reproducing and Reconstructing Reality: International Conference on Realism(s) in Post-WWII Literature. Nanjing: Nanjing University, 26–28 Oct., 2018.
Ø “Despair and Death: Kierkegaard in DeLillo.” Keynote speech (paper admitted). The 11th English Major Forum for the Graduate Students in Jiangsu Province. Zhenjiang: Jiangsu University, 19–20 Nov., 2016.
Professional Service
2021 Teaching Graduate English Course for the Creative Writing Major at the Department of Chinese, Nanjing University.
2021 Participating the scoring of the English subject of the National Entrance Examination for Postgraduate (NEEP) of 2020, Nanjing Normal University.