Person
Researcher
- French Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Comparative Literature
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail shuangyi.lirom.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Phone +46 46 222 88 06
Mobile +46 70 276 68 53
Room L507b
My first monograph Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement: Translation and Transcultural Dialogue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) won the International Comparative Literature Association Anna Balakian Book Prize (2019), for the best book in the field of Comparative Literature published in the last three years by a scholar under the age of forty.
Besides Proust, I'm broadly interested in global modernism(s), transcultural/translingual writings, international canon-formation, reception studies, translation studies, travel writings, and critical models of world and comparative literature.
From 2017-19, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in French and Comparative Literature at Lund University. I've recently been awarded a 3-year research grant by the Swedish Research Council (2019-2022) to complete my second monograph, Travel, Translation, Transmedia Aesthetics: Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts in a Global Age (Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming 2021).
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
My current research project examines the works of four contemporary first-generation Chinese migrant writer-artists in France: François CHENG 程抱一, DAI Sijie 戴思杰, SHAN Sa 山飒, and GAO Xingjian 高行健. They were all born in China, immigrated to France in their adulthood in pursuit of their literary and artistic ambitions, have obtained various prestigious institutional recognitions (Nobel Prize in Literature, Grand Prix de la Francophonie, Prix Femina, Golden Globes nomination, etc.), and have established themselves as writer-artists—translators, calligraphers, painters, playwrights, and filmmakers—in their host country. French has become their dominant (but not only) language of literary creation (except for Gao); yet, linguistic idioms, poetic imagery, and classical thought from Chinese cultural heritage permeate their French texts and visual artworks by means of translation, travel narrative, and cross-artistic fertilization. It is in the translingual, transmedial, and interstitial space between French and Chinese languages and cultures that they find their creative inspiration, freedom, desire, and new life and identity. To further highlight the cross-cultural creative dynamics, the book also scrutinizes how some of their works are self- or collaboratively translated and received ‘back’ in the sinophone space of articulation, and are self-adapted to, and recomposed in, other artistic media, overcoming another host of stylistic, aesthetic, and political challenges.
Books (1)
Articles (5)
- Li, S. (2020). De-pathologizing Perversion : Proust’s Sexual Discourses and Their Chinese Translations. Translation Studies, 13, 43-64. Taylor & Francis.
- Li, S. (2019). Novel, Film, and the Art of Translational Storytelling : Dai Sijie's Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 55, 359-379. Oxford University Press.
- Li, S. (2018). Translingualism and Autoexotic Translation in Shan Sa's Historical Novels. Essays in French Literature and Culture, 55, 115-131.
- Li, S. (2017). Transcultural novels and translating cultures : François Cheng's Le Dit de Tianyi and L'éternité n'est pas de trop. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 53, 179-199. Oxford University Press.
- Li, S. (2014). Proust and China: Translation, Ideology and Contemporary Intertextual Practice. Comparative Critical Studies, 11, 295-314. Edinburgh University Press.
Book chapters (3)
- Li, S. (accepted/in press). Transcending Exoticism? Sound and Voice in Dai Sijie and François Cheng. In Elhariry, Y. (Ed.) Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Sounds Senses, 12. Liverpool University Press.
- Li, S. (accepted/in press). Vernacular Imagination and Exophone Reconfiguration in Francophone Chinese Diasporic Literature. In Kullberg, C. (Ed.) Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Li, S. (accepted/in press). A “Spiritual Journey” Through the “Middle” Kingdom : Travel and Translation in François Cheng’s Translingual Novel. Narratives Crossing Borders : Transcultural Perspective. Stockholm University Press.
Reviews (5)
- Li, S. (2019). Francophonie en Orient: aux croisements France–Asie (1840–1940). Par MATHILDE KANG. French Studies, 73, 158-158. Oxford University Press.
- Li, S. (2015). TU Weiqun, Les Visions croisées : entre CAO Xueqin et Marcel Proust (Yanguang de jiaozhi : zai Cao Xueqin yu Masai’er Pulusite zhijian), Nanjing, Yilin chubanshe, 2014, 670 p. Bulletin d'informations proustiennes, 45, 195-198.
- Li, S. (2014). EVERS, Meindert Proust's In Search of Lost Time: The History of a Vocation Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013. 206 pp., £ 29.80, ISBN 978-3-631-62931-4. Modern and Contemporary France, 22, 406-407. Taylor & Francis.
- Li, S. (2014). LOZINSKY, Elena L'Intertexte fin-de-siècle dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust. Les Carafes dans la Vivonne Paris. Modern and Contemporary France, 22, 419-420. Taylor & Francis.
- Li, S. (2014). Modernism and the Orient, edited by Zhaoming Qian. Modern Language Review, 109, 489-491. Modern Humanities Research Association.
Other tasks and qualifications
I received my MA in French and English Literature (first), MSc in Comparative/General Literature (distinction) and PhD in French at the University of Edinburgh, where I also taught undergraduate modules in French language, literature, film and modern French history. I was selected as 'pensionnaire étranger' (2012-2013) at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). I've also been trained to teach Chinese as a foreign/second language at Beijing Language and Culture University 北京语言大学 (2019-2020). I‘m currently a co-organizer of SOL:s seminar series Komplitt: Forum for Comparative Literature.
Outside academia, I've worked as a part-time conference interpreter - Chinese, English, French, and can be contacted in these languages. (You can also contact me in Swedish as long as you can bear occasional misunderstandings and imperfect grammatical constructions!)
Researcher
- French Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Comparative Literature
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail shuangyi.lirom.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Phone +46 46 222 88 06
Mobile +46 70 276 68 53
Room L507b