Profile
Wei Liu is Assistant Professor of English at Peking University, Beijing. He received his doctorate in English from University of Virginia in 2023. His research covers English-language literatures in the long twentieth century, with a particular focus on poetries from Anglo-America, the Caribbean, India, and Ireland. In addition, he has long-standing interests in modernism, world literature, postcolonial and ethnic studies, and critical theory. He has published articles on modernist and postcolonial poetics, and he is completing a book about ideas of the provincial in twentieth-century Anglophone poetry.
Educational Experience
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2023.
M.A. University of Virginia, 2020.
M.A. Peking University, 2017.
B. A. Peking University, 2014.Work Experience
Assistant Professor of English, Peking University, September 2023—present
Research Interests
modern and contemporary Anglophone literatures, global modernisms, transnational and postcolonial studies, poetry and poetics, critical theory.
Teaching Courses
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Contemporary Critical Theories and Methods
Writing II
Readings in English Prose I
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
1. “Goodison’s Wordsworth.” Modern Philology, vol. 122, no. 4, 2025.
2. “After Revolutionary Alliance: Jazz and Langston Hughes’s Midcentury Internationalism.” Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 70, no. 4, 2024.
3. “Eye Errant: Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion and the Geopoetics of the Senses.” Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly The Journal of Commonwealth Literature), vol. 59, no. 2-3, 2024.
4. “Dis/Appearance for Appeal: On Marianne Moore’s ‘Performing’ Archive.” Style, vol. 56, no. 3, 2022.
Honors and Awards
Peking University Research Fellowship for Junior Faculty 2023-2026
The Marianne Moore Society Essay Prize for 2021-2022
