Dean: Cai Shengqin
Professor， Doctorate Candidate’s Supervisor
School of Foreign Studies, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Received his PhD from China Central Normal University (CCNU) majored in Aesthetics of Literature and Art, earned his Master’s from University of Queensland (UQ.) majored in Linguistics and Language Teaching. He is the chair professor in English Language and Literature of The Department of English, as well as The PhD supervisor majored in Western Philosophy and Aesthetics in The Department of Philosophy; he was the visiting professor of The State University of New York at Stony Brook from 2011 to 2012, was an art lecturer in The University of Queensland during 1996-1997.
He is the executive general director of Hubei Foreign Literature Study Society, and executive deputy director Hubei Provincial Translators’ Association, the communication judge of The National Foundation for Philosophy and Social Science from 2016, the chief judge of National Standard Mandarin Language Testing and Training Center in MOE from 1999, Chief professor of MOE National Level courses Chinese Culture in English for International Students（2017）, the manager of The Research Project of National Level Foundation for Philosophy and Social Science The South African English Novels Study of the twentieth Century (14BWW075).
His research interests are the postcolonial literature, Aesthetics of Literature and Art, the South African fictions, film Literature and translation studies, with a focus on South African Art studies and English novels, and particular interest in the work of J. M. Coetzee and other South African contemporary authors include Andre Brink, Zakes Mda and Nadine Gordimer. He was the caller and organizer of The International Symposium on Coetzee Studies and Post-colonial Literature in China 2010.
He is the author of 11 academic books including:
1. Introduction to English Films and Their Artistic Features (Wuhan University Press 2003),
2. The Island Consciousness: The Writing Situation of Imperial Diaspora Intellectuals On J.M. Coetzee’s Literary Theory and Criticism (Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, Beijing, 2011),
3. English Films and Western Critical Approaches, Wuhan Uni Press, 2012
4. English Film Literature and Critical Theory (Beijing Institute of Technology Press, 2013),
5. J.M. Coetzee’s Experimental Creation and Modernism Writing (Wuhan Uni Press, 2017),
6. On South African English Novels in 20th Century (Wuhan Uni Press, 2021)
7. Film Culture and Criticism (Wuhan Uni Press, 2021)
8. Coetzee Study and Postcolonial Literature Research (Wuhan Uni Press, 2011, editor of international conference proceeding);
9. The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945（Wuhan Uni Press, 2017, Chinese translator）
10. The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology & Anthropophagy (Wuhan Uni Press, 2018 Chinese translator of Oxford classics written by William Arens).
11. The Development of Modern China’s Economics (Sciscan Publishing Limited(HK), 2023, translator from Chinese to English )
He published more than 70 academic essays and won the First Prize three times of Hubei Provincial Social Science Research for the Foreign Literature Studies in 2014, 2016 & 2023.
Email： caisqq@zuel.edu.cn