Professor Fang Nan

Professor Fang Nan holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from Nankai University. She is Dean of Foreign Studies College, Hebei Normal University, China, and appointed as PhD supervisor of University of Stirling.

She is a member of the TAC (Translators Association of China), and currently serving as the executive member of the Committee for Translation of Chinese Classics in CACSEC(China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese), Vice Chairman and Secretary of Translators Association of Hebei Province, China; Vice Chairman and Secretary of Hebei Foreign Language Teaching Research Association for Universities and Colleges; Dean of HNU Translation and International Communication Centre.

professor fang nan

2021 Events/Presentations

Keynote Speaker

Exploration & Innovation: Fostering Students’ Virtue through Education

The 6th National High Level Forum on Foreign Language Teaching Reform and Development in Colleges and Universities

Teaching Guidance Committee for Foreign Language and Literature Major in Higher Educational Institutions, China Ministry of Education. Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2022-03-19

Plenary Speaker

Construction of Translation Research & Learning Community

The 3rd Beijing-Hebei-Tianjin High Level Forum on MTI Education,

Nankai University (China), online

2021-12-25

Plenary Speaker

Ability Cultivation of English Education Majors and Construction of Research & Learning Community,

Tianjin & Hebei Forum for EFL Teacher Education, online

2021-12-24

Forum Speaker

Construction of Translation Research & Learning Community Based on the Cultivation of Innovative Talent: MTI Programme in Heibei Normal University

Annual Conference of China National Committee for Translation and Interpreting Education: Jilin International Studies University (China)

2021-07-21

Organizer and Keynote Speaker

Dean Forum For North China Universities of Foreign Studies

Co-organizer: Teaching Guidance Committee for Foreign Language and Literature Major in Higher Educational Institutions, China Ministry of Education. Hebei Normal University (China),

2021-10-10

Consultancy

Legislative Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Hebei Province, 2011-2018

Hebei Provincial Department of Justice 2019-present

Legal Translation

Department of Emergency Management of Hebei Province

Emergency Language Service

 

Current Research Projects

She is now leading the following main projects:

  • On the Wilderness Image in the Modernization of American Literature

Funded by: China National Social Science Research Foundation

01/06/2014–1/12/2019

  • Database Construction and Cultivating MA and MTI Translation majors

Funded by: China Ministry of Education

01/06/2014–1/12/2019

  • The Ecological Thought in John Donne’s Poetry

Funded by: Hebei Social Science Research Foundation

01/06/2014–1/12/2019

  • Construction of Translation Research & Learning Community Based on the Cultivation of Innovative Talent

Funded by: Hebei Educational Department

01/06/2014–1/12/2019

Current Translation Projects

  • Translation of ONS (Oriental Numismatic Society) Journals (English-Chinese)
  • Translation of Toumchouq Documents (English-Chinese/French-Chinese)

Awards

  • Faculty member of China National-level Excellence Course “English and American Poetry”
  • The 15th Excellent Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Science of Hebei Province, China (the 2nd Prize) 2016
  • The 8th Excellent Teaching Achievement Award of Hebei Province, China (the 2nd Prize) 2019
  • The 5th Excellent Teaching Achievement Award of Hebei Province, China (the 3rd Prize) 2013

Publications

Books

  • Reconstructing the Post-Western Myth, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2009
  • A Concise Course Book on European Culture, the Commercial Press, 2015

Translated works

  • Robert Hardman. Our Queen: the Elizabeth II. Nanfang, China Renmin University Press, 2017.
  • John Muir. Travel in Alaska. Nanfang, Changchun Press, 2018.
  • Taste the "Big Apple"—Random Talk in the Visit of America(C-E), Hebei Education Press, 2015.
  • Green Fruit (C-E ); Beijing Art and Science Electronic Publishing House.2019
  • Herodotus. Ed., Rebecca Timmons. The Story of the Persian War (E-C). Aviation Industrial Publishing House. 2009.
  • International Advanced Agricultural Experiences (E-C). Hebei People’s Publishing House.2012

Book Chapters

Case Study of American Literary Criticism. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2011.

English Prose Selections. (E-C) China Renmin University Press, 2009.

Selected Rules of the People’s Government of Hebei Province (C-E Bilingual Edition) 2010-2011,2012-2013,2014-2015.

Selected Rules of the People’s Government of Hebei Province (C-E Bilingual Edition) 2018-2019. Hebei Provincial Department of Justice

Articles

She has published over 25 academic papers in recent years.

  • “Postmodern Turn in Lonesome Dove”. Contemporary Foreign Literature (CSSCI). 2006 (02): 111-118.
  • “Modernity in John Donne’s Poetry Seen from ‘A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy’s Day’”. Journal of Sichuan International Studies University (CSSCI). 2005 (02): 30-34.
  • “Interpretation on the Nature Imagery in John Donne’s Poetry”. Masterpieces Review. 2010(11): 95-96.
  • Review on the 1st National English Poetry Symposium. Foreign Language and Literature (CSSCI). 2008(6): 174-175.
  • “The Pantheist Consciousness in the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”. Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition). 2014(06): 46-49.
  • “Ecocatastrophic Images in Robinson Jeffers’s Poetry”. Contemporary Foreign Literature (CSSCI). 2013(10): 57-63.
  • “Moccasin Walking into Dilemma:Development of American Western Fiction in the 20th Century”. Journal of Hebei University (Philosophy and Social Science) (CSSCI). 2009(01): 129-131
  • “South & West: Exotic Flowers in American Local Color Literature”. Journal of Sichuan International Studies University (CSSCI). 2008(06): 9-12.
  • “On the rhythmical music and numeral propositions in the Song by Donne”. Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) (CSSCI). 2008(04): 124-128.
  • “A Theoretical Study of the Subjectivity of Translators”. Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition). 2015(05): 117-121.
  • “The Postmodern ‘Place’ in London Trilogy of Martin Amis”, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages. 2020(01): 143-150.
  • “Effective Interaction Between Translation Teaching and Technology in the Post-epidemic Era”. Foreign Language Education & Research. 2021(01): 37-41.
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Research interests

  • Translation Studies
  • English Literature
  • American Literature
  • EFL Education

Taught courses

  • Literary Translation
  • Ecocriticism and Nature Writings
  • History of American Literature
  • Research methodology