Feng Wenkun

Biography

Feng Wenkun, Ph.D., Professor in English Literature and Language Theory at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. 　　Successively educated in English Department of Sichuan University of International Cultural Studies, English Department of Wuhan University, and the college of liberal arts of Suzhou University, he was correspondingly awarded with a bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s degree. He also had three years of postdoctoral research experience in the Foreign Language and Literature Department of Beijing Normal University. In the year of 1992, he was a visiting scholar at Goshen College in USA, financially supported by Chinese Government. In the year of 2009, he was a visiting professor at the English Department of Stanford University. Now he is member of the Guiding Committee for Teaching Foreign Languages of Sichuan Higher Education. He is member of comparative literature association of Sichuan province and member of comparative literature association of China. He is vice President of Applied linguistics Association of Sichuan province, and in 2015 he is selected the Chairman of Cognitive Linguistics Research Association of Sichuan Province. In 2006, he entered the project of new century excellent talents sponsored by Ministry of Education, P. R. China. In 2011, in 2014, he was awarded the second prize and the third prize for his original and illuminating academic achievement in the field of humanities and social sciences by Sichuan Provincial People's Government. In 2013, he became one of the academic leaders of Sichuan Province.　

Research Interest

English literature; Theories of Western literary criticism; Cross-cultural studies; Comparative literature and overseas sinological studies