Professor Fangyun Guo

Professor Fangyun Guo, recipient of two national awards and one international prize, is a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of International Studies (CIS), Southwest University, Chongqing, China. He holds several academic and administrative positions, including Director of the Research Center of Literary Cartography (RCLC) and Director of the CIS Library and Archive Center. In addition, he serves as Vice Director of the Shakespeare Research Center at Southwest University, Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of Chongqing, and Research Fellow at the Research Center for Modern Linguistics and Foreign Language Education (a Chongqing Key Research Base for the Humanities and Social Sciences). Moreover, Professor Guo is a peer reviewer for several leading academic journals, Board Member of the Association of Foreign Literary Theory Studies, and Board Member of the Association on Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies in China.

In addition to his academic leadership, Professor Guo contributes significantly to national scholarly evaluation. He serves on the panel of corresponding judges authorized by China’s Ministry of Education to evaluate applications for the National Distinguished Scholars Program, and holds appointments as a National Expert in Graduate Education Evaluation and Monitoring and as a doctoral dissertation reviewer for the Center for Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development under the same ministry.

He has successfully directed five research projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Education. In addition, he has served as a principal participant in five other projects supported by the National Social Science Foundation. In collaboration with scholars specializing in spatial approaches to foreign literature, Professor Guo contributed to the inclusion of ‘Literary Geography’ as a designated thematic area in the National Social Science Foundation’s project guidelines for two consecutive years (2022 and 2023). To date, he has published a theoretical monograph and edited two scholarly volumes. Furthermore, he has authored nearly fifty articles in both Chinese and English, appearing in leading academic journals such as Foreign Literature Review, widely regarded as the most authoritative journal in the field of foreign literature studies in China.

Recognized as China’s foremost scholar in Literary Cartography within British and American literature, Professor Guo has published one monograph, edited two volumes, and contributed more than thirty peer-reviewed articles to leading academic journals. His monograph Literary Cartography, issued by The Commercial Press—the most prestigious academic publisher in China—in 2020, constitutes the first systematic theoretical study of the subject, both domestically and internationally. Integrating ontological and methodological perspectives, it advances an innovative framework for literary mapping. The book has been reprinted multiple times within two years of publication and has consistently ranked among the Top Ten on both Dangdang’s New Book Bestseller List and JD’s Commercial Press Flagship Store. Its scholarly impact is further attested by four published reviews authored by five scholars, all affirming its considerable academic value. Robert Tally, a leading authority in spatial literary studies, lauds it as a ‘terrific work being done in spatial literary studies globally.’ The volume has also been promoted by four major WeChat public scholarly accounts, collectively reaching an audience of more than 11,000 readers, attesting to its wide reception and influence.

The monograph has also been adopted as a postgraduate textbook in Chinese universities. It was presented to the delegation of the Minister of Education of China during their visit to Chongqing on April 10, 2023, and has since been exhibited in the university’s history museum, where it is permanently preserved in the collection. In recognition of its scholarly significance, the work was included in the Index of the Chinese Translational Fund for Social Sciences and, in 2024, earned Professor Guo the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in China—the highest national honor in the field. Notably, only seventeen scholars of foreign literature in China, with an average age of sixty-six, have received this distinction, which is widely regarded as a lifetime achievement award in the humanities and social sciences.

Beyond his monograph, Professor Guo has published extensively in Foreign Literature Review, Foreign Literature Studies, Foreign Literature, and Foreign Literatures—collectively recognized as the “Four Core Journals in Literary Criticism” in China. More than twenty of his publications are indexed in CSSCI, and within an eight-year span, six appeared in Foreign Literature Review, the leading journal in the field. This record ranks Professor Guo second nationwide in terms of scholarly top publication output on Shakespeare studies in China in the twenty-first century. In addition, eleven of his articles have been featured by seven academic public accounts, generating over 16,000 views and attracting broad academic readership.

Professor Guo’s accomplishments also include the establishment of the Research Center of Literary Cartography (RCLC) in 2021, the first research institution of its kind in China. As its founder, he invited Robert Tally, a leading Western authority in spatial literary studies, to serve as Distinguished Honorary Director. Comprising more than forty scholars, the RCLC is dedicated to advancing the integration of literary studies and cartography. Its mission is to develop systematic theoretical frameworks and critical paradigms for cartographic poetics, while also providing spatial data and cultural insights to facilitate global academic collaboration. Through these initiatives, the Center contributes to the construction of a “spatial community of civilizations.”

In the field of education, Professor Guo is recognized as a distinguished intellectual and a core faculty member of both a National First-Class Major and a National Premium Course. He has led a municipal-level graduate teaching reform project, co-edited a postgraduate textbook published by Higher Education Press, and contributed pedagogical essays to SSCI, Scopus, and Chinese core journals. For more than a decade, he has exemplified academic mentorship, supervising over 150 postdoctoral fellows, doctoral and master’s students, and visiting scholars. Under his guidance, his students have achieved outstanding results, winning 136 awards at multiple levels, including eight at the national level and nine at the provincial or ministerial level.

In the domain of research, Professor Guo’s postdoctoral, doctoral, and master’s students have undertaken twenty funded projects at the provincial/ministerial, municipal, and district levels, and have published nearly thirty articles in high-impact journals, including Foreign Literature Review (CSSCI), as well as in SSCI- and A&HCI-indexed journals, thereby enhancing the international visibility of Chinese scholarship. Under his supervision, many doctoral candidates have produced pioneering dissertations in the emerging field of literary cartography, such as Feminist Literary Cartography (Xu Qiuqun, 2024), The Literary Political Cartography (He Ping, 2024), The Poetics of Map Demonization (Akram Nagi Hizam, 2025), Literary Nautical Cartography (Xu Ni, 2025), and The Poetics of the Body in Literary Cartography (Zhang Zhe, 2024). By integrating teaching, mentorship, and research, Professor Guo has made significant contributions to the cultivation of morally grounded, intellectually accomplished, and globally engaged young scholars in China.

In terms of international engagement, over the past five years, Professor Guo has assembled a team of more than ten international scholars, including postdoctoral fellows, doctoral candidates, and master’s students. These scholars hail from eight countries, encompassing the United States—representing the forefront of Western scholarship—as well as nations along the Belt and Road Initiative, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Iran, Palestine, Jordan, and Nigeria. Under his mentorship, these international students have published nearly 10 monographs in foreign languages and authored over 50 scholarly articles in foreign-language journals, including those indexed by A&HCI, SSCI, and other recognized academic databases. They have also received more than ten honors and distinctions, including the Scholarship for Outstanding International Students in China, recognition as Advanced Individuals in Anti-Pandemic Efforts, and awards for Outstanding International Master’s and Doctoral Graduates.

Regarding Professor Guo’s other international initiatives, over the past five years he has published nearly ten articles in English and contributed a core chapter, ‘The Attributes of British and American Literary Maps’ (pp. 89–106), to the edited volume Spatial Studies in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; edited by Fang Ying and Robert Tally). He has also collaborated with Professor Xie Zhou and Russian scholar Professor Elena to co-edit the Sino-Russian volume Humans on the Journey: Travel as a Cultural Phenomenon (2024). In addition, he has undertaken the international translation of Literary Cartography, the first theoretical monograph in this field, under the Chinese Translational Fund for Social Sciences initiative, thereby advancing the global dissemination of Chinese scholarship.

Furthermore, as the principal organizer, Professor Guo spearheaded the First International Forum on Literary Cartography in China (December 3–4, 2021), which convened 201 official participants from six international universities and 64 domestic institutions. The forum was simultaneously broadcast online, attracting over 4,400 virtual attendees, and received extensive promotion through China’s largest scholarly WeChat account, Foreign Literature and Literary Studies, generating 3,162 views. The event was also covered by domestic and international media, including the Chinese Social Sciences Net and the University of Texas website, thereby achieving substantial scholarly visibility and influence. In total, the forum engaged more than 7,700 members of the academic community.

In addition, Professor Guo has been invited to participate in numerous international conferences, including the inaugural World Congress of Classical Studies organized by the Publicity Department of China (November 7–9, 2024), the 13th International Conference on Literary Ethics (December 6–8, 2024), and the 39th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (March 31–April 2, 2010, Chicago), engaging in extensive scholarly exchanges with experts worldwide on the academic applications of spatial literary theories. On May 30, 2025, he met with the Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in China to discuss the dissemination of Chinese culture in the Arab world, contributing to the establishment of an academic corridor along the Belt and Road Initiative. Through these endeavors, Professor Guo provides cross-cultural intellectual support for the international engagement of Chinese scholarship, promoting dialogue and mutual enrichment between Chinese and Western cultures.

Overall, over the past seven years, Professor Guo has delivered twenty-seven academic lectures and more than thirty (keynote) speeches at domestic and international conferences, reaching an audience exceeding 10,000. His scholarly achievements have been recognized through numerous honors. His publications have been featured seven times on the official website of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and reprinted eight times by the Information Center for Social Sciences at Renmin University (ICSSRU). Notably, he has twice been named the “Most Indexed Scholar in Humanities” by ICSSRU, ranking first in the field of Foreign Language and Literature in China.

Moreover, twice awarded fellowships by the National Scholarship Council, he pursued visiting research with internationally renowned Shakespearean scholars—Professor Lena Orlin (Executive Director of Shakespeare Association of America) at Georgetown University in 2009 and Professor Richard Burt at the University of Florida in 2016. Internationally, he was awarded the Academic Conference Award by the Shakespeare Association of America in 2010. Nationally, he has received both the Outstanding Achievement Award for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in China (2024) and the National Outstanding Teaching Achievement Award (2009).

Ultimately, Professor Guo’s scholarship and achievement have been featured or reported by many authoritative media outlets in China, including People’s Daily Online, Chinese Social Sciences Net, and the official website of China Education Television, as well as by major popular platforms such as NetEase, Sina, and Toutiao, resulting in steadily growing influence.

For academic correspondence, Professor Fangyun Guo can be reached at davyguo@swu.edu.cn.

总体简介：

郭方云，三级教授，博士生导师，博士后导师。两项国家级奖项的获得者（国家级教学成果奖、教育部人文社科国奖）、一项国际奖的获得者（Academic Conference Award，Shakespeare Association of America）。国家级学者通讯评审专家，国家级基金项目通讯评审专家，全国研究生教育评估监测专家。重庆市学术带头人，重庆市莎士比亚研究会副会长，重庆市重点文科研究基地“外国语言学与外语教育研究中心”研究员，西南大学文学地图学研究中心主任、外语图书馆与档案中心主任。

中国自主知识体系“文学地图学”理论的探索者，中国首个文学地图学研究中心的创建者，中国首届“文学地图学国际论坛”的主办人，《中国大百科全书》“文学地理学”词条的编撰者，两个学术期刊文学地图专栏的组稿人。学科级权威期刊《外国文学评论》连续两期刊首论文的作者，中华学术外译书目入选者，中国社会科学院官网学术论文的作者，多个国家社科基金及省部级课题主持人，国家留学基金委“国家公派访问学者（含博士后研究）项目”的获得者。美国乔治城大学和佛罗里达大学英语系访问学者（合作导师分别为美国莎士比亚研究会执行会长Lena Orlin、国际著名莎士比亚学者Richard Burt）。国家级教学成果奖获得者（2009），重庆市研究生优质课程的主讲人，高教出版社《研究生英语自主阅读》的副主编。

主持主研国家级及省部级科研基金项目13项。10余年来，在商务印书馆出版基础理论专著1部，主编跨文化空间研究著作1部（雅罗斯拉夫尔国立师大，俄罗斯）。近20年，发表中英文论文近50篇（截止到2025.9.1，下同）。发表英文学术论文近10篇，其中A&HCI论文2篇、SSCI论文1篇、Scopus论文1篇。在《外国文学评论》《外国文学研究》《外国文学》《国外文学》《外语与外语教学》等国内专业学术刊物上发表学术论文近40篇，其中CSSCI论文21篇，包括8年6篇《外国文学评论》权威期刊论文。在中国二十一世纪学科级顶刊的莎学研究发文量上，与中国社科院陈雷研究员并列第二（徐嘉，《中国学术期刊中的莎士比亚》，北大出版社，2022：272）。

国家级一流专业及国家级精品课程骨干教师，市级研究生优质课程主讲教师。主持市级研究生教改项目1项，副主编高教出版社研究生教材1部，发表SSCI、Scopus及中文核心期刊教学论文多篇。近5年，承担英语专业本科核心课程及硕博研究生核心课程5门、公共英语硕博研究生学术写作2门，总学时3038节，受教学生逾两千人。10余年来，指导博士后、博士、硕士研究生及访问学者150余人。指导过的博士后、博士生及硕士生荣获国家级、省部级、市级、区级和校级奖项共计136项，其中“全国高校外语课程思政教学案例大赛奖”等国家级各类奖项8项、“重庆市（英语）翻译比赛一等奖”及“见义勇为‘陕西好人’称号”等省部级奖励9项、市级奖励7项、区级奖励19项；承担省部级、市级等各级科研项目20项，包括“早期现代英国女性写作中的文学地图与身份构建研究”等省部级项目6项、市级科研项目10项、区级课题3项；在学科级权威期刊《外国文学评论》等CSSCI、A&HCI、SSCI等各级别学术期刊发文近30篇，完成女性文学地图学（2024，徐秋群）、文学政治地图学（2024，和平）、地图妖魔化诗学（2025，Akram Nagi Hizam）、文学海图学（2025，徐妮）、文学地图身体诗学（2024，张哲）等高质量的理论型博士论文，为中国学术和中国教育培养了德才兼备的专业后备力量。连续3年获评学院“年度优秀教师”（2018-2020），荣获“国家级教学成果奖”（2009）。

在国际拓展方面，近5年组建逾10人的外国博士后及硕博留学生团队。他们分别来自美国等欧美学术前沿，以及巴基斯坦、斯里兰卡、也门、伊朗、约旦、巴勒斯坦、尼日利亚等“一带一路”8个国家，出版外文著述近10部，发表A&HCI、SSCI及其他级别外文学术论文逾50篇，荣获“优秀来华留学生奖学金”“抗疫工作先进个人”“优秀来华硕士毕业生”“优秀来华博士毕业生”等荣誉10余项。

近5年，郭教授除发表英文论文近10篇外，还为Palgrave MacMillan出版的编著Spatial Studies in China（方英和Robert Tally 主编，2022）贡献核心章节“The Attributes of British and American Literary Maps”（89-106）。和俄罗斯雅师大联合，与谢周教授、俄罗斯Elena Boldyreva教授合作，联合主编中俄论文集《人在旅途：作为一种文化现象的旅行》（2024）。组织开展“中华学术外译书目”《文学地图学》的外译工作，将中国话语体系推向国外，呼应大国崛起的国际战略。

作为主办者，领衔召开中国首届“文学地图学国际论坛”（2021.12.3-4），来自6所国外高校及64所国内高校、共计201位学者作为正式嘉宾参会；大会同时进行网络视频直播，线上与会人数逾4400余人；中国最大“外国文学文艺研究”学术公众号进行详细推送，浏览量达3162人次——共计七千七百余位学界人士参与或浏览此次盛会，中国社会科学网、美国德州大学官网等国内外媒体进行了专章报道，产生广泛影响。

此外，受邀参加中宣部主办的首届世界古典学大会（2024.11.7-9）、第十三届国际文学伦理学大会（2024.12.6-8）、美国莎士比亚研究会第39届年会（2010.3.31-4.2，芝加哥）等诸多国际会议，就中国学者视域下的文学地图学学术效用与世界各地顶级专家进行广泛交流。会见也门共和国驻华使馆文化参赞（2025.5.30），深入探讨阿拉伯世界的中国文化传播等议题、共建“一带一路”学术走廊——为中国学术的国际拓展、华夏文明的海外传播、中西文明的融通互鉴、大国崛起的国际战略提供跨文化智性支持。

社会影响方面，荣获一项国际奖、两项国家奖、五项省级奖。在第四轮教育部学科评估中，贡献全院12篇中文顶刊成果的三分之一，为学院获取评估佳绩贡献力量。专著《文学地图学》曾名列当当新书热卖榜前十、商务印书馆京东旗舰店畅销榜前十；两年来三次印刷、两度售罄；获商务印书馆等四大微信学术公众号单推力荐，总浏览量近一万一千五百人次。英美文学空间研究领军学者Robert Tally称该著为“当今世界文学空间研究界的佳作”（2022.1.16），陆扬教授、方英教授、韦清琦等5位著名学者撰写4篇书评，也给与该著高度评价。该著作为特色成果向访渝的教育部部长一行作专台展示（2023.4.10），后被校史馆展览陈列和永久收藏。专著成为国内高校的研究生教材，入选“中华学术外译书目”（2022），2024年荣获教育部第九届高校人文社科优秀成果奖（中国外国文学界共17人获奖，获奖者平均年龄66岁）。与中国外国文学空间研究学者们一起，助力“文学地理学”论题连续两年列入国家社科基金项目指南（2022、2023）。

专著及论文成果被《中国社会科学》等国家级学术期刊引用；近7年12篇论文被七大学术公众号推介14次，浏览量逾一万六千人次；8年内近10篇论文被中国社会科学网和人大复印等权威学术媒体全文转载15次，连续两届荣获人大“复印报刊资料重要转载来源作者”称号（中国外国语言文学界共两人两届入选，另一位学者为中国人民大学一级教授、中国外国文学古典学研究会刘小枫会长）。完成学术讲座27场（最近7年）、国际国内会议（主旨）发言30余次，受众逾万人。人民网、中国社会科学网、中国教育电视台官网等权威媒体，以及网易、新浪、今日头条等主流大众媒体，也对部分成果进行了专章报道或转载，影响日增。

学术兼职

1.国家级学者通讯评审专家

2.国家级基金项目通讯评审专家

3.全国研究生教育评估监测专家

4.多家顶级学术期刊审稿专家

5.外国文艺理论研究会理事

6.中国比较文学与跨文化研究会理事

7.重庆市莎士比亚研究会副会长

8.西南大学文学地图学研究中心主任

9.外国语言学与外语教育研究中心研究员

招生方向（博士生和博士后）

1.英国文艺复兴时期文学

2.英美浪漫主义诗歌

3.英美现代主义文学

4.英美后现代主义文学

5.英美十九世纪小说

6.比较文学与世界文学

招生方向（硕士生）

1. 英语文学

2. 文学翻译

研究兴趣

1.文学理论：跨学科视域下的文学生成论、本体论和方法论研究，比如文学地图学（文学地理学）、文学空间理论、比较诗学、跨学科论等。

2.文本阐释：新文科框架下的文本研究，涉及文学空间、文学地理、女性主义、新历史主义、后殖民主义、解构主义、新物质主义、叙事学、伦理学等诸多维度。

3.翻译研究：翻译理论研究（电子翻译学等），翻译实践研究（文学翻译）。

所授课程

1.英美文学空间诗学（英语专业博士生）

2.英美文学跨学科研究（英语专业博士生）

3.学术论文写作（英语专业研究生及本科生）

4.浪漫主义（英语专业研究生）

5.学术论文写作（学术型博士研究生）

6.研究生英语（一外）

专著编著（3部）

学术论文：权威期刊论文6篇（2013-2020年）（社会评价截止到2025.9.1，下同）

学术论文：英文学术论文8篇。其中核心期刊4篇（A&HCI论文1篇，SSCI论文1篇, Scopus论文2篇），详情如下：

学术论文：其他CSSCI论文16篇

学术论文：外语及中文类（核心）期刊论文8篇

学术论文：其他学术论文3篇

主持项目（国家级、省部级等级别项目8项）

主研项目（国家级及省部级项目5项）

专著获推（《文学地图学》被四大学术公众号单推力荐，总浏览量近一万一千五百人次）

论文获推（12篇论文被七大学术公众号推介14次，浏览量逾一万六千人次）

学术讲座（7年27场）

主要荣誉（国际级、国家级、省部级等级别荣誉15项）

联系方式：重庆市北碚区天生路2号 西南大学外国语学院

邮政编码：400715

电子邮件：davyguo@swu.edu.cn