SUFE Centres Launch Ceremony
Time: 20 November, 2020 13:30-18:00
Venue: Room 626, Red Tile Building
Welcome to Join us via Zoom!
Zoom ID: 961 018 45744
Zoom PW: 201120
Link: https://zoom.com.cn/j/96101845744
Introduction of the Centres
SUFE Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture is based at the School of Foreign Studies and draws its membership from the School’s literature subject group. Its founding director is Sandro Jung, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, who also serves as general editor of the Lehigh University Press book series, Studies in Text and Print Culture, and as Editor-in-Chief of the A&HCI journal, ANQ, which is published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. The centre is the first of its kind in China and approaches textuality from a range of theoretical perspectives, including those that favour attention to the materiality of text, text technologies, performance practice, the history of the book, paratext, epitext, and textual phenomena that can meaningfully be mined as part of the reception history of literary works. It does not restrict its scholarly efforts to the study of verbal, typographically realised structures but comprehends text more broadly to include not only tropes, (verbal) images, and illustrations but also literary material culture and multi-medial hybrid textualities. Members are especially interested in the multifarious readability of literary texts, and utilise a range of theories to investigate textual meaning.
The Center for Gary Snyder Studies is named after the man who is internationally recognized as the Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology. The Center was founded in 2015 at Hunan University by Professor Joan Qionglin Tan and is now housed at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE). The Center welcomes new members from around the world to join and participate in collaborative projects in the work of ecocriticism, environmental ethics, Buddhist ecopoetics, and intermedial and comparative cultural and literary studies that draw upon and broaden Snyder’s own work on behalf of a more ecological civilization.