Visiting Scholars
Dr. Hu Sang
Visiting Professor
(February 2025 – August 2025)
Hu Sang finished his PhD at Shanghai International Studies University in spring 2021. His thesis, ‘A Study of the English Translation of Sensory Narratives in Jin Ping Mei’, explores the English translation of visual, aural and olfactory narratives in the (in)famous vernacular classical novel Jin Ping Mei. He is currently Lecturer in Translation Studies at Hunan Normal University, and has published 10 research papers. His research areas span literary translation, translation and sexuality, and stage translation and adaptation.
Dr. Yang Yang
Visiting Professor
(February to August 2025)
Yang Yang (male), Ph.D., is an associate professor and the former chair of the French Department at the Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University. He serves as a committee member of the National Higher Education Examination French Language Subject Expert Committee, a council member of the French Literature Research Association, and a council member of the Chinese French Teaching Research Association. He holds a master's degree in Applied Foreign Languages (Langues étrangères appliquées) from the University of Lyon, France, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and World Literature from Hunan Normal University. He has conducted research visits at the University of Angers, the University of Tours, and the Cavilam (Centre Audio-Visuel de Langues Modernes) in France. His research areas include literary translation, French literature, and comparative literature. He has led two National Social Science Fund projects and multiple provincial-level research projects. He is the head of the French Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base in Hunan Province. He has published two academic monographs on French literature studies and over twenty academic papers. He has translated and published several books such as Youthful Years in Montargis (French edition) and served as an accompanying French interpreter for several heads of state and political figures, including the President of the Republic of the Congo, the President of the Republic of Burundi, the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, etc.
Former Visiting Scholars
2024
Dr. Claire F. Fox, Fulbright Canada Research Chair in the Arts and Humanities (August-December 2024)
Dr. Yong Qin - Visiting Professor (July-December 2024)
Wenjiao Li - Academic Visitor (Jan - July 2024)
2023
Dr. Yolanda Natalia Alvarez Gomez - Academic Visitor (2023)
Hislla S. M. Ramalho - Academic Visitor (2023-2024)
2022
Dr. Alex Averbuch - Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023)
Dr. Magdalena Kaltseis - Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)
Dr. Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle - Fulbright Scholar (2022)
2021
Dr. Maxime Bock - Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022)
Dr. Bettina Egger - Austrian Visiting Professor (2021-2023)
2020
Dr. Florian Mundhenke - DAAD Visiting Associate Professor (2020-2023)
2019
Dr. Maria Mayerchyk - Huculak Research Felow (2019-2020)
Dr. Iryna Skubii - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professorship (2019-2020)
Dr. Wolfgang Stadler - University of Innsbruck (Austria) - September 2019
Dr. Yanyu Zeng - Hunan Normal University, China - November 2019
Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez - Visiting Professor (October 2019-March 2020)
2018
Dr. Tatiana Saburova - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professorship (2018-2019)
Anna Seidel - DAAD German Academic Exchange Service research; Graduate Academy of TU Dresden
Marianna Novosolova - DAAD German Academic Exchange Service/ research
Dr. Paulo Andrade - Brazilian Visiting Scholar