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Department：English Department

Email：wangbw@sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background & Work Experience

Education Background

Ph.D. English, Trinity College Dublin

Visiting Doctoral Studentship in Life-Writing, University of Oxford

M.Sc. Literature and Modernity, University of Edinburgh

B.A. English Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University

Exchange in English/American Studies, University of Southern Denmark

 

Work and Research Experiences

Assistant Professor, English Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Early Career Researcher, Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute

Teaching Assistant, School of English, Trinity College Dublin

Teaching and Research

Research Interests

Global modernisms; intermedial studies between literature and art; experimental poetry and poetics; the Euro-American avant-gardes

 

Courses Taught

20th-Century British and American Fictions (Postgraduate)

Academic Writing, Norms, and Ethics (Postgraduate)

Transmedial Studies of Literature (Undergraduate)

Comparative Studies of World Literary Currents (Undergraduate)

Research Project on Comparative Literature (Undergraduate)  

 

Recent Publications

  1. Wang, Bowen, ed. Global Transmedial Modernism, special issue of English Language Notes, vol. 64, no. 2, 2026 (call for papers). (A&HCI)

  2. Wang, Bowen. “Vital Modernism: E. E. Cummings’s Still Life, the Quotidian, and Visceral Poetics.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, no. 2, 2025 (forthcoming). (A&HCI)

  3. Wang, Bowen. “Beyond Ideogrammic Method: Pacific Rim Modernism and the East-Asian Aesthetics of E. E. Cummings’ ‘Poempictoriality.’” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal (forthcoming). (A&HCI)

  4. Wang, Bowen. “‘The image of one fatal word’: Transmedial Crisscrossings in E. E. Cummings’ Experimental Modernism.” American Modernism (Re)considered, edited by Jeff Birkenstein and Robert C. Hauhart, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 (forthcoming).

  5. Wang, Bowen. “‘A draughtsman of words’: The Modernist Crafting of Prosodic Intermediality in E. E. Cummings’ Fauvist and Cubist Palettes.” Modernist Cultures, vol. 19, no. 2-3, 2024, pp. 153-85. (A&HCI)

  6. Wang, Bowen. “‘In the austere theatre of the Infinite’: Constructivist Abstraction as the Aesthetic Archetype in Mina Loy’s Ekphrases.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews, vol. 37, no. 1, 2024, pp. 70-77. (A&HCI)

  7. Wang, Bowen, and Amelia McConville. Introduction: Towards an Alternative Poetics of Intermediality. Intermedial Poetries: Alternative Methods and Practices, special issue of Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 47, no. 2, 2024, pp. 1-7.

  8. Wang, Bowen. “Reformulating the Theory of Literary Intermediality: A Genealogy from Ut Pictura Poesis to Poststructuralist In-Betweenness.” The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality, edited by Jørgen Bruhn et al., Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 339-64.

  9. Yang, Huayu, and Bowen Wang. “Poet as Poem: The Intermedial Staging of A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love.” Orbis Litterarum, online print, 2023, pp. 1-14. (A&HCI) (Corresponding Author)

  10. Wang, Bowen. “Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of ‘Gertrude Stein’ and ‘Joyce’s Ulysses’.” The Explicator, vol. 80, no. 1-2, 2022, pp. 53-59. (A&HCI)

  11. Wang, Bowen. “The Materialisation of ‘torrential languages’ within the Avant-Garde: Mina Loy, James Joyce, and Aesthetic Modernism.” Prague Journal of English Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 67-88.

  12. Wang, Bowen. “Mina Loy, Logopoeia, and The Alphabet that Builds Itself.” The Modernist Review, issue 39, 4 April 2022.

  13. Wang, Bowen. “‘Save this damn’d profession of writing’: Ezra Pound’s Images, Vortex, and Poetics of Intermediality.” Music, Poetry and Language: Sound, Sight and Speech in Comparative and Creative Connection, edited by Konrad Gunesch, London: Interdisciplinary Discourses, 2021, pp. 249-62.

  14. Wang, Bowen. “Demystification of the ‘Innocent Eye’: Nelson Goodman, Ernst H. Gombrich, and the Limitation of Conventionalism.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 44, no. 1, 2021, pp. 81-88.

  15. Wang, Bowen. “Decomposing and Reconstructing the Marginal: Walker Evans’ Portrait Photography in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” U.S. Studies Online: Forum for New Writing, 5 October 2020.

 

Conference Papers and Invited Talks (Selected)

  1. Wang, Bowen. “Beyond Ideogrammic Method: E. E. Cummings’ ‘Poempictures,’ Eastern Aesthetics, and Pacific-Rim Modernism.” “Modernism between Past and Future”: The 3rd International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, May-June 2024

  2. Wang, Bowen. “Beyond the Total Work of Art: An Intermedial Genealogy of Poesis and Pictura.” “Sedimentation: Towards an Archaeology of Word and Image”: The 13th International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS) Conference, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, August-September 2023.

  3. Wang, Bowen. “Portraying the Avant-Garde: Readymade and Painterly Abstraction in Mina Loy’s Art Poems.” “Mina Loy and Her Network” Conference, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, September 2023.

  4. Wang, Bowen. “‘Where a painter is a poet’: E. E. Cummings’ Modernist Response to Chinese Art.” “Making Modernism 1922: 100 Years On”: Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, United States, October 2022.

  5. Wang, Bowen. “The Poetics of Intermediality from a Poststructuralist Perspective.” “In Between and Across: New Directions, Mappings and Contact Zones”: The 6th International Conference of International Society of Intermedial Studies (ISIS), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, September 2022.

  6. Wang, Bowen. “Futurist or Dadaist: Mina Loy’s Lost Lunar Baedeker of the Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde.” The 16th European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, August-September 2022.

  7. Wang, Bowen. “‘Evolve the language of the Future’: Intermedial Modernism and Mina Loy’s Mongrel Selves.” “Hopeful Modernisms”: The British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, June 2022.

  8. Wang, Bowen. “‘Reading, from out of the purple tabulae’: Wallace Stevens’ Metapoetics and Interart Philosophy.” “Poetry and/as Criticism” Symposium, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, March 2022.

  9. Wang, Bowen. “‘Textual Vision’ & ‘Visional Text’: William Blake’s Illuminated Poems and E. E. Cummings’ Graphic Experiments.” The 32nd Annual Conference of American Literature Association (ALA), Boston, Massachusetts, United States, July 2021.

  10. Wang, Bowen. “Poetry and Painting: Modernist Intermediality in Pound, Williams, and Stevens.” “The Intermedial Work of Art: Conception, Realisation, Performance, Reception, Preservation”: The 5th International Conference of the International Society of Intermedial Studies (ISIS), Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, France, November 2020.

  11. Wang, Bowen. “Visual Poetry and Its Visual Turn: Past, Present, and Future.” Countervoices Summer Series Talks, Centre for Modern Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom, April 2020.

 

Poetry Translations

  1. Wang, Bowen, trans. “Cascando,” by Samuel Beckett. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 80-83.

  2. Wang, Bowen, trans. “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r,” by E. E. Cummings. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 10, no. 1, 2021, pp. 54-55.

  3. Wang, Bowen, trans. “Heart, Crown and Mirror,” by Guillaume Apollinaire. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021, pp. 24-25.

  4. Wang, Bowen, trans. “Aphorisms on Futurism,” by Mina Loy. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 9, no. 1, 2020, pp. 18-23.

  5. Wang, Bowen, trans. “The Banquet” & “Book of Anti-Prophecy,” by Ying-Chuan. Washington Square Review, vol. 45, 2020, pp. 53-54.

 

Fellowships and Awards

William Mong Foundation for International Exchange

Trinity Trust Travel Grant, Trinity College Dublin

Modernist Studies Association Travel Grant

Irish Association for American Studies Postgraduate Conference Bursary

British Association for Modernist Studies Conference Bursary

Higher Education Authority Extensions Fund, Government of Ireland

European Association for American Studies Transatlantic Travel Grant

State Scholarship Fund, China Scholarship Council

Second Prize of the Guangdong-HK-Macau Postgraduate Academic Exchanges

Student Opportunity Fund, University of Edinburgh

Sumitomo Corporation Scholarship  

Professional Service

Modernist Studies Association

British Association for Modernist Studies

International Society for Intermedial Studies

International Association of Word and Image Studies

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