Lingying Wu
Ph. D. English Literature; Ph. D. Supervisor English Literature and Culture; Prof English; Prof English Literature and Culture; Chair English Literature and Culture.
Her research interests: English Literature and Culture, English Education. Her current research: Milton Studies.
Address: College of Foreign Studies, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR. China, 410083; Mobile: 13875806022; E-mail: wulingying@126.com
Her fields of study include English Education, English Literature and Culture, specializing in the 20th-Century British and American novels, and English poetry, focusing currently on Milton and the epic tradition. She teaches such courses as 20th-Century Western Literary Critical Theories, and 20th-Century British and American Novels, and is now planning the course English Renaissance Literature with Shakespeare and Milton as the major contents. Lingying Wu has published four books including Marginal Protagonists’ Journey: A Study on Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison (2005), and her monograph Christian Hero: A Study on John Milton’s Trilogy is forthcoming soon.
She has also published 53 essays in such academic journals as Foreign Literature Review, Foreign Literature Studies, Foreign Literature, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, and the like, the former three of which are the top three national key journals on foreign literature. Her recent journal publications on Milton include the following representatives:
1) “Milton’s Inheritance and Development of Western Epic Tradition Seen from the Epic Invocations,” Foreign Literature Review 4 (2013);
2) “Milton’s Poetic Invocations,” Chinese Social Sciences Digest 4(2014);
3) “Divinity and Humanity of Jesus Christ in Paradise Regained and Christ’s Identiry in Christian Doctrine,” Foreign Literature Studies 1 (2013);
4) “‘The Spiritual Agonistes’ and Agonistic Spirit in Samson Agonistes,” Foreign Literature 4 (2012);
5) “Satan in Paradise Lost and the Devil Tradition in Christianity,” Foreign Literature 6 (2014);
6) “On the Paradox of John Milton’s Theology on Temptations,” Foreign Literature Studies 8 (2012);
7) “Milton’s Theology on the Spirit: also on the Holy Spirit in Christian Doctrine,” Journal of Central South University (CSSCI) 1 (2013);
8) “Temptation and the Hero’s “Self-knowledge”: On the First Temptation Episode in Paradise Regained,” Journal of Central South University (CSSCI) 4 (2014);
9) “Jesus in Paradise Regained: the Prototype of the Christian Hero,” Journal of Central South University (CSSCI) 1 (2015).
