You Qiaorong

Professor, Ph.D.

Address: School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China  

Education

Ph.D. (English language and literature), Shanghai International Studies University, 2013

M.A. (English language and literature), Central China Normal University, 2000

B.A. (English language and literature), Central China Normal University, 1985

Professional Experiences

June 1985 — present     Assistant, lecturer, associate professor, professor, School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University 

November 2004 — June 2005   Visiting scholar, Augustana College, USA

Research Interests and Current Research Work

Major Research Interests 

1. British and American literature

2. College English teaching

Current Research Work 

1. Working on the innovative art of James Joyce’s fiction

2. Working on the negative transfer of Chinese language in the spoken English of college students

Research Results and Others

Selected Publications 

1. Qiaorong You, The Dialogic and Carnivalized Art in Ulysses. Central China Normal University Press, 2015.

2. Qiaorong You, ed. New Century College English Comprehensive Practice 4. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2014.

3. Qiaorong You, ed. New Century College English Comprehensive Practice 1. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2010.

4. Qiaorong You, ed. English for Tour Guides. Central China Normal University Press, 2006.

5. Qiaorong You, ed. Hotel English. Central China Normal University Press, 2006.

6. Qiaorong You. The Polyphonic Quality of Ulysses. English and American Literary Studies 20. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2014. 43─56.

7. Qiaorong You. On the Art of the Labyrinth in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Foreign Literature Studies 5 (2009): 84─90.

8. Qiaorong You. Joyce’s Symbolic Technique in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Jianghan Tribune 10 (2007): 118─120.

9. Qiaorong You. The Innovation in Bildungsroman’s Narrative Style in J. Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Journal of Central China Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences) 6 (2006): 134─138.

10. Qiaorong You. On the Epiphany Used in James Joyce’s Novels. Foreign Literature Studies 4 (2003): 78─81.

Research Projects

She independently completed or worked as a participant in six research projects related to college English teaching and college English teaching reform.

Honors and Awards

Two awards(2005) for her participation in a research project related to college English teaching reform.

Two important honors(1994, 2010) for her dedication to teaching and educating students.

First prize for her excellent college English teaching from 2001 to 2002.

Third prize for the English major group in a foreign language translation contest held in Hubei Province in 1987.