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論文盲審 Academic Peer Review Services (voluntary)

Cultural Critique (SSCI and A&HCI), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (SSCI and A&HCI), International Feminist Journal of Politics (SSCI), Men and Masculinities (SSCI), College Literature (A&HCI), Literature Compass (A&HCI), Comparative Critical Studies (A&HCI), Utopian Studies (A&HCI), ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (A&HCI), Kritika Kultura (A&HCI), Chinese Literature and Thought Today (A&HCI), Adaptation (A&HCI), English Language Notes (A&HCI), Critical Arts (A&HCI), Life Writing (A&HCI), International Research in Children’s Literature (A&HCI), Global Media and China (ESCI), The Wenshan Review (ESCI and THCI), South China Quarterly: Journal of University of Macau (南國學術-澳門大學學報) (CSSCI), Humanities-Basel (ESCI and Scopus), Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context (상황) (KCI), African Identities (Scopus), Journal of Chinese Film Studies (Scopus), East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (Scopus), Oxford Research in English, Comparative Literature & World Literature, and Journal of Transcultural Communication.

編輯 Editorial Work (paid)
Flair Donglai SHI

Commissioning Editor (from 2025) 

Flair Donglai SHI

Managing Editor (from 2023)


博士學位評審 PhD Examination (paid)​​

2024

  • Binjun Grobbelaar, Border Crossing, Collecting, Gravitating: Small Narratives of Three “Ordinary” Collectors in the Chinese Diaspora in South Africa Since the Late 1980s, Rhodes University (South Africa) (external)

  • Di-Kai Chao 趙帝凱, Exploring Sinophone Liminality: The Ghost Narrative of Contemporary Fiction in Chinese and its New Perspective, The University of Canterbury (New Zealand) (external)

2023

  • Chen Huafei 陈华菲, Comparative Studies on Literature and Dance: An Interdisciplinary Approach, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (internal)

  • Feng Lihui 冯丽蕙, A Study of Franco Moretti’s Strategy of Distant Reading, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (internal)

*Flair regularly examines MA theses across the different humanities departments at SJTU, and has served as an external expert examiner for Chinese and English MA theses from Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), Nankai University (南开大学), Southeast University (东南大学), Capital Normal University (首都师范大学), Southwest Jiaotong University (西南交通大学) etc.

基金项目 Grants and Funds (recent)
  • (2023-2024) Collaborative Teaching Fund (¥90,000), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with Prof. Cai Wenjing and Prof. Chang Chih-yun, for hosting Prof. Matthew Reynolds’s short course on translation and world literature, April/2024. 

  • (2023-2024) SJTU-Warwick Collaborative Seed Fund (£10,000), SJTU and Warwick University, for the project “British Chinese Writers and the Practice of World Literature” with Dr. Jane Qian Liu (Warwick)

  • (2023-2024) British Council and UK-China Humanities Alliance Visiting Scholars Award (£2,500), University of Exeter, for the project “Race and China-Africa Relations on Screen” with Dr. Xiaoning Lu (SOAS)

  • (2022-2025) Overseas Talent Scheme for Leading Scholars in the Humanities 上海市白玉兰人才计划文科领军人才 (confidential amount), Shanghai Municipal Government 

  • (2022-2025) Research Initiation Support (¥300,000), Shanghai Jiao Tong University

其他社會文化工作 Miscellaneous Other
  • (2022-now) Founding Member of China-Africa Shanghai International Network (CASIN) 上海中非关系研究网络, and Principal Manager for the biennial Global China-Africa Writing Competition 全球中非写作大赛, sponsored by the CA/AC Network (2022-2024), Ford Foundation (2022-2024) and Fudan University (2023-2025).

  • (2025-now) Regular Member, The Chinese Association of Studies of Foreign Literature British Literature Branch (中国外国文学学会英国文学研究分会会员).

  • (2025-now) Board Member, Shanghai Foreign Literature Association (上海市外国文学学会理事).

  • (2024) International Jury Member for the “Sheng Sheng Best Paper Award” hosted by Heidelberg University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

  • (2024) Academic Jury Member for the “Emerging Curators Project 青策计划” Competition held by Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum 上海当代艺术博物馆.

  • (2023) Chinese-English Translation Work for China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., translating stage scripts for the poetic dance drama A Touch of Green 《只此青绿》. 

  • (2021-2022) Academic Editor and Consultant for Chinese Literature at YLYK 友邻优课, Chinese podcast company

  • (2018-2019) Panel Director for Oxford China Forum 牛津中国论坛 (guests invited: Jin Xing 金星, Xu Bing 徐冰, Yan Geling 严歌苓, Feng Tang 冯唐, Li Ang 李昂, Nicky Harman, Sheng Keyi 盛可以, Anna Gustafsson Chen, Zhang Lijia 张丽佳).

  • (2018) Interpreting for Mo Yan 莫言 and facilitating his academic activities during his visits and activities at the English Faculty and Oxford Prospects and Global Development Centre

  • (2017-2018) Vice-President for Academic Events, Oxford Chinese Studies Society

  • (2017) Chinese calligraphy workshops for the Ashmolean Museum and BBC

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