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Yuexi Liu is an Assistant Professor in English Literature in the Department of Literary and Translation Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her research interests include modernist studies, modern and contemporary fiction, medical/health humanities, comparative literary studies, gender and sexuality, literature and film, and cognitive literary studies. Her research has been published in Modernist Cultures, Textual Practice, and English Studies. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Exterior Modernism: Evelyn Waugh and Cinema. She is working on two projects: War, Memory, Ageing: Exterior Modernism at Mid-century and Chinese Modernist Satire.
Research interests
Modernist studies
Modern and contemporary fiction
Comparative literary studies
Medical/health humanities
Evelyn Waugh
Literature and film
Cognitive literary studies
Experience
Co-founder, Medical/Health Humanities Research Group, XJTLU - 2019-present
Co-leader, Health Humanities Research Group, Centre for Culture, Communication and Society, XJTLU - 2022-2024
Co-leader, Medical Huamnities Research Group, XJTLU - 2019-2022
Programme Director for BA Applied English/English Studies - 2019-2022
Co-editor, Evelyn Waugh Studies - 2019 to present
Assistant Professor in English Literature, XJTLU - 2018 to present
Senior Editor, Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick - 2015-2018
Teaching
HSS301 Health Humanities
LIT301 FYP (Literature)
LIT208 The Short Story
LIT203 Literature and Gender
LNG002 Introduction to English Studies
LIT102 Literature in Context
ENG217 Literature and Gender
ENG106 Literature in Context
LAN004 Imagining the City
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Durham University - 2017
MA, University of Warwick - 2010
BA, Beijing Foreign Studies University - 2009
Research areas
- modernist studies
- modern and contemporary fiction
- medical/health humanities
- ageing studies
- cognitive literary studies
- gender and sexuality
- comparative literary studies
- literature and film
- history of medicine, science, and technology
Person Types
- Staff
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Exterior Modernism at Mid-Century: War, Trauma, Memory
Liu, Y. (PI)
1/01/19 → 31/12/25
Project: Internal Research Project
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Health Cultures in the Chinese Context: Intersections of Language, Culture and Narrative
Scott, P. (Editor) & Liu, Y. (Editor), 2026, (In preparation) Routledge.Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Book › peer-review
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Evelyn Waugh’s Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy
Liu, Y., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Bloomsbury Academic.Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Book › peer-review
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Legends of Two Cities: The Birth of Eileen Chang’s Chinese Modernism
Liu, Y., 2025, (Submitted) In: Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th- Century Cultures.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chinese modernist satire: Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang’s Legends (1944)
Liu, Y., 2024, In: Textual Practice. 38, 7, p. 1019-1042 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Narrating Difficult Histories: Interwar Border Crossing in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) and Christopher Isherwood’s Down There on a Visit (1962)
Liu, Y., 2022, In: English Studies. 103, 4, p. 586-608Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review