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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
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
Anglo-American modernism; intermedial studies between literature and art; experimental poetry and poetics; the European avant-gardes
Journal Articles
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Wang, Bowen. “Vital Modernism: E. E. Cummings’s Still Life, the Quotidian, and Visceral Poetics.” Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming). (A&HCI)
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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, 2024, pp. 311-43. (A&HCI)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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Wang, Bowen. “Mina Loy, Logopoeia, and The Alphabet that Builds Itself.” The Modernist Review, issue 39, 4 April 2022.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Wang, Bowen. “The Baedeker of Euro-American Avant-Gardes: Mina Loy’s Transatlantic Modernism.” “Cross-Border Modernism” Academic Salon, School of Foreign Languages & Literature, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, May 2024.
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Wang, Bowen. “From Italian Futurism to New York Dada: Mina Loy’ New Womanhood and Cosmopolitan Avant-Gardes.” “Women and Crossover”: The 2nd National Meihu Forum on Foreign Literature Studies, British and American Literature Research Centre, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, March 2024.
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Wang, Bowen. “Portraying the Avant-Garde: The Readymade Word in Mina Loy’s Artist-Portrait Poems.” “Mina Loy and Her Network” Conference, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, September 2023.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Wang, Bowen, trans. “Cascando,” by Samuel Beckett. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 80-83.
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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.
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Wang, Bowen, trans. “Heart, Crown and Mirror,” by Guillaume Apollinaire. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021, pp. 24-25.
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Wang, Bowen, trans. “Aphorisms on Futurism,” by Mina Loy. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 9, no. 1, 2020, pp. 18-23.
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Wang, Bowen, trans. “The Banquet” & “Book of Anti-Prophecy,” by Ying-Chuan. Washington Square Review, vol. 45, 2020, pp. 53-54.
Professional Service
Association Memberships
Modernist Studies Association
British Association for Modernist Studies
International Society for Intermedial Studies
International Association of Word and Image Studies
E. E. Cummings Society