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 diverse topics in modern and contemporary English-language literatures, with a particular focus on poetries from the US, the UK, the Caribbean, India, and Ireland. In addition, he has long-standing interests in modernism, world literature, transnational and postcolonial 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. “Revision-ing the Caribbean Mother: Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, and the Pathways toward a Located Literariness.” PMLA, vol. 141, no. 1, 2026. (A&HCI)

2. “‘In’: M. NourbeSe Philip and ‘Center.’” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 12, no.1-2, 2025. (A&HCI)

3. 《反边隘主义：重访〈荒原〉》，《国外文学》, 2025年第4期，109-120页。 (“Against Provincialism: Rereading The Waste Land.”) （CSSCI）

4. “Goodison’s Wordsworth.” Modern Philology, vol. 122, no. 4, 2025. (A&HCI)

5. “After Revolutionary Alliance: Jazz and Langston Hughes’s Midcentury Internationalism.” Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 70, no. 4, 2024. (A&HCI)

6. “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. (A&HCI)

7. “Dis/Appearance for Appeal: On Marianne Moore’s ‘Performing’ Archive.” Style, vol. 56, no. 3, 2022. (A&HCI)

Honors and Awards

Peking University Research Fellowship for Junior Faculty 2023-2026

The Marianne Moore Society Essay Prize for 2021-2022