Profile
Li Lingling is currently an assistant professor in the School of Humanities at Southeast University(top 20 in China). She has a joint PhD from Sun Yat-sen University (top 10 in China) and the University of Western Australia(world’s top 100). Dr. Li’s research focuses on internet literature and cultural industries、literary theories and urban cultural studies.
She has an interdisciplinary academic background based on literature, cultural anthropology, and cultural studies. Her major was archaeology in Department of Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University (2001-2003). In 2003 she transferred to Chinese language and literature department, then received her BA’s degree and had a chance to go on with a six-year continuous academic project that involved postgraduate and doctoral study, in theory of literature and art.(2005-2011) During the period, she won a funding from China Scholarship Council to support her media cultural research at the University of Western Australia(2010).
She has been working as an assistant professor at Southeast University Since 2012. She had been the vice dean of the department of Chinese language and literature for two years, in charge of the discipline development and postgraduate education.
Key research
Internet literature and cultural industries
Literary theories in the new media age
Urban cultural studies
Teaching
2012.4- Teaching Courses at Southeast University:
1.“New media and Chinese contemporary literature ”（liberal education course for all undergraduates）
2.“New urban migrant literature and urban culture”（undergraduate course）
3. “Theory of comparative literature”（graduate course）
4. “Special topics on Chinese and foreign cultural history”（graduate course）
5.“Text readings on The Plum in the Golden Vase”（seminar course）
6.“University Chinese”（MOOC teamwork）
7. Special topics on Chinese international promotion（graduate course）
2007-2008, Lecturer in Chinese Literature of JiNan University, “Folklore” course, undergraduates.
2009-2010, Tutor in Chinese Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University, “Aesthetics”, “Literary theory” for undergraduates.
Publications
Books:
Dagong writers: The Construction of Cultural Identities of New Urban Migrants in the Pearl River Delta, published by China Social Science Press, 2016.
Papers:
1.“Urban Villages as Spaces of Cultural Identity：Urban migrant writers in the Pearl River Delta”，International Journal of China Studies（indexed in CSA），Vol. 4, No. 2, August 2013, pp. 189-212.(In English)
2.Media Transition and Differentiation of Writer Groups: A case study of Dagong wiriters,Literature and Art Forum（CSSCI）, No. 12, 2016.
3.From Classical Poetics to Cultural Locale: Literary research in the pluralistic age of the aesthetic power, Modern Literary Magazine（CSSCI）, No. 3, 2017（be cited one time）
4.Shanzhai Cultural Phenomenon: Introspection on contemporary cultural production system, China Book Review（CSSCI）, No. 3, 2010（be cited ten times by SSCI, reprinted by Sociology Perspective Web of Renmin University of China, and Chinese Book Publishing Web.）
5.Imaging Post Earthbound Space: Discussion on South villages and towns in Dagong literature, Literature and Art Criticism（CSSCI），No. 1, 2017.
6.Fakelore、Forms of Folklore and the Protection of the Living Forms of Cultural Tradition, Cultural Heritage（CSSCI），No. 4, 2009（be cited 11 times）.
7.Poetical Dwelling: Thought of human settlement environment in Tang Poem, Seeker,（CSSCI），No. 10, 2008（be cited one time）
8.Urban Village is the Literary Locale of Dagong Writers, Creation and Criticism, No. 22, 2015.
9.From image to locale: the aesthetic view of the urban cultural ecology, Journal of Wulin, No. 3, 2016.
10.The Imaged Space: the urban maps of the outlanders, Web of Chinese Academics（former Web of Century China Journal Magazine, No. A, December, 2009.
11. A Prostitute Writer’s Double Overthrow, Web of Chinese Academics（former Web of Century China Journal Magazine, No. A, June, 2006.
12.Belittling and Failure: the Chinese Women's Literature since 1990s—A Conspiracy under Commerce and Mass Media, Journal of the Graduates (Social Sciences), No. 3, 2007（reprinted by Web of Contemporary Cultural Studies、Web of Chinese Research, be cited six times）.
13. How Fake Songs of China Come into Being, Journal of the Graduates (Social Sciences), No. 3, 2008（be cited four times）.
Funding Project
1.2014, The Ministry of education Research of Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Funded Project, “City Images and Cultural Identities of Contemporary New Urban Migrants”，No.14YJC751021, principal investigator, finished.
2.2014, The National Social Science Fund Project, “Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Inheriting and Creation of the Chinese Folk Literary Aesthetics”, No.14BZW027, co-principal investigator.
3.2014, The Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities in education Department of Jiangsu Province, “Nanking Images in Contemporary Media Culture”, No.2014SJD022, principal investigator, finished.
4.2015, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, “The Rural-Urban Writing and Identities of Contemporary New Urban Migrants”, No.2242015S20033, principal investigator, finished.
5.2015, the Education Reform Project of Southeast University, “New Urban Migrant Literature and the Urban Culture, principal investigator, finished.
6.2014, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, “Urban Images and Identity Transition: Wrings on urban and rural societies of urban migrant writers in contemporary China”, No. 9513000024, principal investigator, finished.
7.2013, the Liberal Education Course Reform Project of Southeast University, “New Media and Chinese Contemporary Literature”, No, 20130011 principal investigator, finished.
8.2009, the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund important creative PhD Project ,“Cultural Locale: Searching urban cultural ecology from aesthetic view”, principal investigator, finished.
9.2007，Bureau of Culture of Guangzhou Municipality Project, “Guangzhou Jade Carving: Lists of national intangible cultural heritage”, principal investigator, finished.
Presentations & Conference Papers
1.2017, National Art Sociology Youth Scholars Forum and“Theory, Method and Chinese Practice of Art Sociology” Forum, keynote speech in Chinese, a paper delivered, Nanking, organized by Sun Yat-sen University.
2.2010, ‘Urban Villages as Spaces of Cultural Identity：Urban migrant writers in the Pearl River Delta’, speech and seminar paper in English, organized by Asian Studies of the University of Western Australia, October 20.
3.2008, ‘Forms of Folklore and the Protection of the Living Forms of Traditional Cultures’, keynote speech in Chinese, a paper delivered at the international conference on “Studies on Traditional Drama: under the View of the Protection of Intangible Cultural heritage”, organized by Sun Yat-sen University, October 10-13.
Award
1. 2016, Prize for teachers excellent in teaching, second award.
2. 2014, School young teachers teaching skills competition, second award.
3. 2008, Southern Metropolis Daily News Scholarship Award.
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