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Wang Bowen
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English Department wangbw@sjtu.edu.cn
基本介绍
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
研究领域
  • Global modernism; intermedial studies between literature and art; word and image studies; experimental poetry and poetics; the Euro-American avant-gardes in the 20th century
讲授课程
  • Intermedial Studies of Literature (Postgraduate)
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (Postgraduate)
  • 20th-Century British and American Fictions (Postgraduate)
  • Academic Writing, Norms, and Ethics (Postgraduate)
  • Classic Reading and Interpretation (Undergraduate)
  • Transmedial Studies of Literature (Undergraduate)
  • Comparative Studies of World Literary Currents (Undergraduate)
  • Literature and Media (Undergraduate)
  • Research Project on Comparative Literature (Undergraduate)
学术论文
  • Wang, Bowen, ed. Global Transmedial Modernism, special issue of English Language Notes, vol. 64, no. 2, 2026 (call for papers). (A&HCI)
  • 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)
  • Wang, Bowen. “Silence and Empowering: The Gendered Narrative of Modernism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Modernism Revisited: Texts and Contexts, edited by Amitayu Chakraborty, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 (forthcoming).
  • Wang, Bowen. “Vital Modernism: E. E. Cummings’s Still Life, the Quotidian, and Visceral Poetics.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, no. 2, 2025, pp. 112-35. (A&HCI)
  • Wang, Bowen, and Randall Stevenson. “Modernism’s Contemporary Echoes: An Interview with Randall Stevenson.” English Studies, online print, 2025, pp. 1-15. (A&HCI)
  • Wang, Bowen. “‘The image of one fatal word’: Transmedial Crisscrossings in E. E. Cummings’ Experimental Modernism.” American Modernism (Re)Considered: Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, pp. 169-91.
  • 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)
  • Wang, Bowen. “Intermedialising Modernities: The Polyphonism of Modernist Ut picture poesis.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 40, 2024, pp. 1-20. (A&HCI)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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) (通讯作者)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • Wang, Bowen. “Mina Loy, Logopoeia, and The Alphabet that Builds Itself.” The Modernist Review, issue 39, 4 April 2022.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
学术著作
  • Journal Articles (Selected)
  • Wang, Bowen, ed. Global Transmedial Modernism, special issue of English Language Notes, vol. 64, no. 2, 2026 (forthcoming). (A&HCI)
  • 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)
  • Yang, Huayu, and Bowen Wang. “Empty Mediation: Contemporary Media Culture and the Failure of Affect in Leaving the Atocha Station and The Answers.” Anglia: Journal of English Philology, vol. 144, no. 1, 2026. (A&HCI) (Corresponding Author)
  • Wang, Bowen. “On and Off the Canvas: William Carlos Williams’s Ekphrasis and Wallace Stevens’s Abstraction as Modernism’s Transmedial Artifice.” Papers on Language and Literature, vol. 59, no. 4, 2025, pp. 256-94. (A&HCI)
  • Wang, Bowen. “Vital Modernism: E. E. Cummings’s Still Life, the Quotidian, and Visceral Poetics.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, no. 2, 2025, pp. 112-35. (A&HCI)
  • Wang, Bowen, and Randall Stevenson. “Modernism’s Contemporary Echoes: An Interview with Randall Stevenson.” English Studies, online print, 2025, pp. 1-15. (A&HCI)
  • 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)
  • Wang, Bowen. “Intermedialising Modernities: The Polyphonism of Modernist Ut picture poesis.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 40, 2024, pp. 1-20. (A&HCI)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • Wang, Bowen. “Mina Loy, Logopoeia, and The Alphabet that Builds Itself.” The Modernist Review, issue 39, 4 April 2022.
  • Book Chapters (Selected)
  • Wang, Bowen. “Intermedial Aesthetics.” Mina Loy in Context, edited by Sarah Coogan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (solicited).
  • Wang, Bowen. “Silence and Empowering: The Gendered Narrative of Modernism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Modernism Revisited: Texts and Contexts, edited by Amitayu Chakraborty, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp. 97-106.
  • Wang, Bowen. “‘The image of one fatal word’: Transmedial Crisscrossings in E. E. Cummings’ Experimental Modernism.” American Modernism (Re)Considered: Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, pp. 169-91.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Conference Papers (Selected)
  • Wang, Bowen. “E. E. Cummings’ ‘Poempictures,’ Experimental Lineation, and Modernist Transmediality.” “Family Resemblances”: Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, January 2026.
  • Wang, Bowen. “‘Where a painter is a poet’: E. E. Cummings’ Intermedial Prosody and Pacific-Rim Modernism.” “Comparative Literature and Technology”: The XXIV Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, July-August 2025.
  • Wang, Bowen. “Mina Loy, Artist Portraiture, and Poetic Words as Readymade.” “Modernism and Language”: The 4th International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA), Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, June 2025.
  • Wang, Bowen. “‘Poet-Painter of China’: E. E. Cummings’ Daoist Philosophies and Transpacific Modernism.” The Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), virtually, May-June 2025.
  • Wang, Bowen. “Modernist Pacific Rim and the Cross-Medial/Cultural Aesthetics of E. E. Cummings’ ‘Poempictoriality’.” The 36th Annual Conference of American Literature Association (ALA), Boston, Massachusetts, United States, May 2025.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Poetry Translations
  • Wang, Bowen, trans. “Cascando,” by Samuel Beckett. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 80-83.
  • 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.
  • Wang, Bowen, trans. “Heart, Crown and Mirror,” by Guillaume Apollinaire. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021, pp. 24-25.
  • Wang, Bowen, trans. “Aphorisms on Futurism,” by Mina Loy. Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 9, no. 1, 2020, pp. 18-23.
  • Wang, Bowen, trans. “The Banquet” & “Book of Anti-Prophecy,” by Ying-Chuan. Washington Square Review, vol. 45, 2020, pp. 53-54.
奖励与荣誉
  • 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
社会兼职
  • Cogent Arts & Humanities (ESCI), Senior Editor of Literature
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (A&HCI/SSCI), Editorial Board Member
  • Feminist Modernist Studies, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Philologica, LLIS, HSSC, etc., Reviewer
  • Modernist Studies Association, Member
  • British Association for Modernist Studies, Member
  • Modernist Studies in Asia Network, Member
  • International Society for Intermedial Studies, Member
  • International Association of Word and Image Studies, Member
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