(I)ResearchInterests:
Art theory and Art History, focusing on issues including art and technology, global eco-art, and art communication.
(II) CoursesTaught:
Undergraduate
Environmental Humanities and SDG Vision
Media and Humanities, Craftsmanship and Humanities
Practicing Cultural Studies
Postgraduate
Methodology for Art Communication Study
(III) ResearchAchievements
BOOK
Monograph
The Identity of Zhiqing: The Lost Generation. Routledge 2016. (first author)
Textbook
1. Understanding Digital Humanities: A Readeredited by Jin Wen and Wang He. Shanghai: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press 2024.
2.A Textbook of Cultural Economics edited by Ruth Towse. Beijing: Higher Education Press 2019. (second translator, 200,000 Chinese characters)
Translation
1. A Selection of Essential Readings of Western Art Psychology. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press 2024.
2.The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press (forthcoming).
Journal Articles
English Articles
1. Interpreting David Smith’s photography through a medium-centred model of communication. European Review. 2023;31(S1): S90-S102.
2. American modernists contemplating Asia: Reviewing the journey of Mark Tobey and Isamu Noguchi. Athenaeum Review, 2020(5).
3. Sharing or integration: Rethinking the localization of co-working spaces in Shanghai, in Lee Martin and Nick Wilson eds.The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Chinese Articles（CSSCI）
1. Towards a progressive new humanism: Theoretical insights from transmedia ecological art, Journal of Art Theory & Art History 2025(2);
2. Examining the innovativeness of contemporary AI art from Marxist view of technology and art, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 2024(3);
3. An interpretation of the disciplinary significance of imagination in art studies: With a discussion on the positioning of the ‘technique–art’ Issue, Journal of Art Theory & Art History 2023(2);
4. Science-fiction imagination in world literature: A case study of the hybrid writing style in “Good Hunting”, Comparative Literature in China 2023(4);
5. The ecological implications of contemporary Chinese science fiction’s “nonhuman” imagination, Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism 2023(3);
6.Intermedial construction of the publicity of art space: A reflection on image-object and bit. Hundred Schools in Arts 2022(6).
7. Art and aesthetics as experiences and reflections on empirical studies: interview with Gerald C. Cupchik, Professor of Art Psychology at University of Toronto. Jianghai Academic Journal 2021(6).
8. “Art of our time” and conception of American Modernism. Art Research 2020(3).
(IV) Major Research Projects
Leading
1. “The Dissemination and Reception of Chinese Culture in Europe” (21WWWB005), Chinese Academic Translation Project supported by the National Social Science Foundation;
2. “Intermedial Performativity and Space Production by Art” (2020-2023), Funding for Basic Research at Central Universities;
3. “A Study on the Integration and Innovation of Science Communication and Art Communication: A Case Study of Artistic Expressions of Metabolic Health” (2025-2026), supported by Nanjing University Young Talent Development Promotion Association;
4. “A Study on the Integration of Knowledge in the Interdisciplinary Course ‘Transmedia Performativity’”, Nanjing University Interdisciplinary Teaching Research and Practice Project;
5. “Art Education and Rural Revitalization: Study Camp of Cultural Exploitation of Songxi Prints”, Nanjing University Cultural and Creative Industries Projects.
Participating
1. “Ethics of Cultural Industries” (2016-2021), Major Projects of the National Social Science Foundation;
2. “Techno-cultural Studies of Art” (2015-2020)，General Projects of the National Social Science Foundation;
3. “A Study on the Cultivation Model of Cultural and Creative Versatile Talents in Comprehensive Universities” (2017-2020), Jiangsu Education Reform Project.
4. “Intermedial Construction of Art Theory and Its Science of Knowledge”, Major Projects on Arts of the National Social Science Foundation
5. “A Study of the Important Aesthetic Issues Raised by Contemporary Art”, Major Projects of the National Social Science Foundation
(V) Award and Honor
Research
1. “Exploration of interdisciplinary design education in the context of the construction of beautiful countryside”, Second Prize of Excellent Paper, 15th Academic Conference of Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Philosophy and Social Sciences (2022)
2. “Sharing or integration: Rethinking the localization of co-working spaces in Shanghai”, 7th Nanjing University Young Teachers' Award for Original Research in Humanities (2021)
3. “Calibrating craftsmanship: A critical reflection from the dual perspective of aesthetic and social significances”, Third Prize for Outstanding Paper, the Annual Meeting of the Aesthetics Society of Jiangsu Province (2017)
Teaching& social service
1. Nanjing University Yan Gongda Teaching Award (2025);
2. Nanjing University Outstanding Moral Mentors (2025);
3. Nanjing University China Bank Outstanding Teaching Award for Early-Career Lecturers (2025);
4. Outstanding Practitioner in Social Practice, Jiangsu Province (2024);
5. May Fourth Medal for Young Teachers of Nanjing University (2022)
6. Second Prize, the University-level Final of the Second Nanjing University Teaching Competition (September 2022)
7. “Charming Mentor” Prize of Nanjing University (September 2021)
8. Student mentor, Grand Prize and First Prize of Jiangsu University Students' Cultural Creative Works Competition on “Rural Revitalization” (January 2022)
9. Student mentor, First Prize of Jiangsu Student Micro Video Creation Competition (December 2021)
