Curriculum
Vitae

WANG Changcai 

Department of Chinese Language and Literature

School of Humanities

Xipu Campus, Southwest Jiaotong University

Western Hi-tech Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan 611756, P. R. China

E-mail: wang_changcai@163.com

wang_changcai@swjtu.edu.cn

Employment:

2018.12-                 professor, Southwest Jiaotong University

2017.09-                 Doctoral supervisor, Southwest Jiaotong University

2010.03-2012.09    vice-dean of Department of Chinese Language and Literature

2008.12-2018.12    associate professor, Southwest Jiaotong University

2008.09-                   Master supervisor, Southwest Jiaotong University

2006.09-2008.12    lecturer, Southwest Jiaotong University

2002.03-2006.09    lecturer, Cangzhou Normal College, China

1996.07-2002.03    instructor, Cangzhou Normal College, China

Education:

2006 
  Ph.D., Literary Theory, Renmin University of China

2004 
  M.A., Literary Theory, Renmin University of China

1996 
  B.A,
Chinese Language and Literature. Hebei University, China


2021.12-2022.12  visiting scholar, Project Narrative, The Ohio State University, USA

2013.09-2014.09 visiting scholar, University of California, Berkeley, USA

2008.07-2008.09 academic English training, University of Calgary, Canada

Selected Publications:


Books:

Unnatural Narrative Theory: Critical Survery and Constructive Dialogue, Chengdu: Sichuan University Press, 2025

Uncertainty: On the Narrative Discourse of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Novel, Chengdu: Bashu Pulishing House, 2009

Cross-civilization Dialogue: Fusion of Horizons and Cultural Interaction, (Co-edited with Prof.Cao Shunqing & Prof. Xu Xingyan), Chengdu, Bashu Pulishing House, 2009

Book Chapters and Journal Articles:

Literature as a "Narrative-Affective Technology": A Study of Angus Fletcher's Story-Science Theory. Signs & Media, 2026(01): 151–162.

Reexamining "Metalepsis" : The Natural and the Unnatural. Journal of Literary Theory and Criticism, 2025(2): 15–24.

A Taxonomic Investigation of the Unnatural Narrators. Studies in Chinese Language and Literature, 2025, Spring Issue (1): 167–176.

Several Basic Concepts of Narratology [D]//Hu Yirong, ed. Collected Debates on the Form of Meaning. Chengdu: Sichuan University Press, 2025: 57–74.

The New "Pre-narrated text" and the Original " Pre-narrated text " [D]//Hu Yirong, ed. Collected Debates on the Form of Meaning. Chengdu: Sichuan University Press, 2025: 134–146.

Permanent Defamiliarization: Iversen's Theory of Unnatural Narrative. Signs & Media, 2024, 28(01): 70–80.

How to Understand "Unnatural Narrative Theory": A Discussion with Mr. Jiang Lan. Exploration and Criticism, 2024(01): 1–11.

Differences in Stance between Unnatural Narrative Theory and Rhetorical and Cognitive Narratology [C]. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Narratology and the 9th National Symposium on Narratology, Nanchang: Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House, 2024: 128–139.

Three Dialogues between Cognitive Narratology and Unnatural Narrative Theory. Cognitive Poetics, 2024(02): 35–51.

Anti-Narrative Causality: An Understanding of Unnatural Narrative. Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 45(06): 16–26.

Social Mind, Emotion and Cognition: Rereading Bi Feiyu’s Blind Massage.Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition),5(2021):75-82

Keyword: Unnatural narratology.Narrative Studies, 3(2021):110-127

Revisiting the "Double Framing" Principle: The Nature of Fictional and Factual Narrative and the Judgemental Dilemma[J].Signs & Media, 2(2020):209-218

Pan-Text and Explicit Text: Two Understandings of "Co-text”. Shijiazhuang: Research on Chinese Language and Literature, 2 (2018): 9-16.

"For a New Film": Alan Robert-Grillet's Aesthetics of Film, Beijing: Culture and Poetics. 1 (2018): 130-146.

Self-education: 4 poems: Encounter, edited by Lei Wuling, Beijing: Cultural Development Press, 2018

Anti-mimetic: on Brian Richardson's "Unnatural Narrative Theory", Chengdu: Chinese and Foreign Cultural and Literary Theories. 2 (2017): 413-421.

Pectination and Consultation: On Zhao Yiheng's General Narratology,Beijing: Literature & Art Studies, 7(2015):151-160

“Marcel Proust”, The Selected Works of Foreign Literature, edited by Prof. Wang Lixin, Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2015

“Alain Robbe-Grillet”, The Selected Works of Foreign Literature, edited by Prof. Wang Lixin, Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2015

 “The Inspiration and Questions Brought by New Defination of DiBEN（底本）”, Beijing:Literature & Art Studies, 11(2013):31-37

“Rereading Regret for the Past (伤逝)：A Perspective of Cognitive Narratology”, Beijing:Luxun Research Monthly, 7(2013):12-18

“On Perspective, Character and Other Problems in Zhang Yihe’s Love & Sin Novels”, Beijing: China Book Review, 7(2013):71-74

“Marcel Proust”, History of Foreign Literature, edited by Prof. Wang Lixin, Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2013

“Alain Robbe-Grillet”, History of Foreign Literature, edited by Prof. Wang Lixin, Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2013

“The Puzzlement of Narrators in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Novels and Unreliable Narrative”, Wuhan: Foreign Literature Studies, 33.6(2011):67-76

“Midway upon the Journey of Life”(Poem), Harbin: Poem Forest, 6(2011): 57-58

“The Influence of Film on the Novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet”, Beijing: Foreign Literatures, 3(2009):61-69

(Reprinted by Replicated Journal of Foreign Literature Studies, Beijing: Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China, 2009.12)

“Cross-civilization Dialogue in Fusion of Horizons and Cultural Interaction”, Chengdu: Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities, 191(2007):65-66

“How to Understand Alain Robbe-Grillet”, Beijing: Foreign Literature Review, 2(2006):135-142

“On Narratives of Love in Han Dong’s Novels”, Kaifeng: Journal of Kaifeng University, 20.1(2006): 43-47

(Reprinted by Replicated Journal of Chinese modern and Contemporary Literature Studies, Beijing: Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China, 2006.5)

“Inspiration and Abstract Thinking in Writing Poem: A Glimpse to Paul Valéry’s Poetics”, Haerbin: The Northern Forum, 5(2005): 43-46 

(Reprinted by Replicated Journal of Foreign Literature Studies, Beijing: Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China, 2006.1)

“Narcissistic Yi Sha”, Beijing: Works and Debates, 2(2003):65, 49

“Politics, Sex and Laugh: a Comparative study of Milan Kundera and Wang Xiaobo”,Cangzhou: Journal of Cangzhou Normal College, 18:1(2002):25-30

“Being, Sex, Laugh: the world of Milan Kundera’s Novels”, Cangzhou: Journal of Cangzhou Normal College, 17.3(2001):29-32

“Striving to Explore Love and Truth: the Deep Theme in J. D. Salinger’s Novels”,Cangzhou: Journal of Cangzhou Normal College, 17.2 (2001): 28-29

Academic Interviews:

The Unnatural and Unnatural Narrative Theory: An Interview with Professor Brian Richardson, Chengdu: Signs & Media. 1 (2019): 112-122

Novel, Narrative and Ethics: An Interview with Professor Dorothy J. Hale, Chongqing: English Studies. 1(2016):1-9

[An abridged version was reprinted by China University Academic Abstracts, 3 (2017), 126-127]

Translation:

Henrik Skov Nielsen: Fictionality and Narration, (虚构性与叙述), Inquiry and Criticism. 5(2021) :1-18

Brian Richardson: Unnatural Narratology: An Overview(非自然叙述学概要), English Studies.1 (2019): 154-164.

Dorothy J. Hale: Henry James and the Novelistic Aesthetics of Alterity: Othering Maisie(Part Two)(亨利·詹姆斯与他异性小说美学:他者化梅西.下),  English Studies.1 (2018): 53-65

Dorothy J. Hale: Henry James and the Novelistic Aesthetics of Alterity: Othering Maisie(Part One) (亨利·詹姆斯与他异性小说美学:他者化梅西.上). English Studies.1 (2017): 39-49

Grants and Awards:

2026-2029　　 "Theory and Practice of Story Science", Annual Key Project, supported by Sichuan Provincial Social Science Fund

2026      "The Response of Narratology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and the Promotion of Story Thinking", supported by Sichuan Research Center for Literary and Art Criticism

2016-2022 　 “A Study of Unnatural Narratology”, supported by National Social Science Foundation of China

2015-2019    “A Study of Hot Issues of Postclassical Narratology”, supported by Sichuan Provincial Social Science Planning Project

2015-2016   “A Study of Frontier Issues of Chinese and Western Narratology”, supported by Scientific Research Starting Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education of China

2009-2014   “The Possibility and Limitation of Visual Narrative”, supported by Humanity and Social Science Funds of Ministry of Education of China

2010-2011   “Research on Foreign Classics Writers”, supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

2009-2010   “Research on Foreign Classics Writers”, supported by Academic Development Funds of Southwest Jiaotong University

Teaching:

Postgraduate:

Special Issues on Narratology

Narratology: Theories and Approaches

Special Issues on the methodology for Studying Literature

Philosophy of Art

Modern Western Literary Thought

Undergraduate:

Introduction to Narratology

Introduction to Literary Theory

Introduction to Aesthetics

History of Western Aesthetics

History of Foreign Literature

Thesis Writing