Dr. SUN Lin is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). She earned her doctoral degree in 2012 at Shanghai International Studies University. She was a visiting scholar at University of New Mexico (UNM), USA from Oct. 2010 to Oct. 2011, funded by the China Scholarship Council of the Ministry of Education, PRC. She participated in Summer Institute on Literature at McMaster University, Canada (2007) and “Chinese Leaders in American Studies” (CLAS) Summer Institute in Washington DC, Gettysburg and Philadelphia, USA (2015). She was a volunteer in Gan’nan Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC (2008).
Her current research interests focus on African American Literature, African American Cultural Studies, black feminist theory, intersectionality and black motherhood. She teaches such courses as US Survey, US History, The Society and Culture of Major English-Speaking Countries, American Women Writers to undergraduates and offers US Women Herstory seminars to graduates. She was awarded SISU Excellent Teaching Prize, SISU Outstanding Staff and Shanghai Excellent Mentor for Social Practice.
L. Sun. trans. Sing, Unburied, Sing. Jesmyn Ward. Shanghai: CITIC Press Group, 2021.
L. Sun. “Revisiting Black Motherhood in the US: A Black Feminist Perspective.” World Ethno-National Studies, 3(2018):55-63.
L. Sun.“African American Women Literature and Mothering Models in Maternal Families.” English and American Literary Studies27(2017): 241-253.
L. Sun. “Marriage Legal System of Victorian England – An Analysis of Law Descriptions in Jane Eyre.” Foreign Language and Culture Studies 7(2009): 105-114.
X.L.Wang, L.Sun, S.P.Ling, M.Gan, Studies on Vladimir Novokov’s Art of Fiction. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2008.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: sunlin@shisu.edu.cn