Wanlin LI
李宛霖

Wanlin Li is an Associate Professor of English at Peking University, specializing in Gothic literature, narrative theory, and adaptation studies. Her recent monograph, Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic: A Study in Form, History, and Culture (Routledge, 2021), examines the interplay of politics and aesthetics in American Gothic literature of the nineteenth century, establishing global ambiguity as a distinctive generic feature. This book received the Ministry of Education Award for Outstanding Research in Higher Education.

Her scholarly work on British and American Gothic literature, narrative theory, and transcultural adaptation has also appeared in Narrative, Style, Journal of Narrative Theory, and a number of leading Chinese journals in foreign literature studies. During her research at HYI, she will further investigate the narrative and cultural transformations that emerge in cross-cultural adaptation from the perspective of transculturation.