Editorial Advisory Board
Honorary Editor-in-Chief
University of Connecticut, United States
International Editor-in-Chief
Indiana University Bloomington, United States
Editors-in-Chief
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Academic Advisors
Peking University, China
Shanghai Normal University, China
Members of Editorial Advisory Board
Lauri Scheyer, California State University, Los Angeles, United States
Paul Giles,University of Sydney, Australia
Ignatius Chukwumah, Federal University Wukari, Nigeria
Robert Muponde, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Khadija Allali, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
胡杰辉 (HU Jiehui), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
邹 涛 (ZOU Tao), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
张飞龙 (ZHANG Feilong), Henan Medical University, China
Grace A. Musila, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
李蓓蕾 (LI Beilei), Zhejiang Normal University, China
Joe Liaw, New Era University College, Malaysia
江 岚 (JIANG Lan), Saint Peter's University, United States
Dana F. Mirand, University of Massachusetts, United States
Gregory E. Doukas, University of Connecticut, United States
Thomas Meagher, University of Memphis, United States
Sirikhwan Phathairak, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Anna Sroka, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
Editorial Office
Editor, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, China
Editor, Zhejiang Normal University, China
Editor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Editors-in-Chief Introduction
Professor 谭惠娟（TAN Huijuan)
Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Zhejiang University and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Dr. Tan is the Founder and Director of the Sino-African Languages and Cultures Committee, a subsidiary of the Society for Chinese and Foreign Languages and Cultures, as well as the Founder of the African American Literary History and Translation Project. A specialist in African diaspora studies, she is recognized in China as a distinguished scholar of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright. She has undertaken visiting scholarships at the University of California (August 2001 to August 2002) through a China State Scholarship Fund program, and at Harvard University (May to August 2010) through the Zhejiang University Pao Yue-Kong Fellowship.
Research Areas: Professor Tan's research centers on African diaspora literature, American literature, Western translation studies, and comparative literature, with a sustained commitment to advancing Pan-African intellectual perspectives and diasporic critical frameworks. Within the broad terrain of Black Atlantic literary and cultural production, she has made seminal contributions to the study of Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin, paying particular attention to the intersections of blues aesthetics, dialogism, modernism, and racial politics in African American literary discourse. Her work consistently bridges Chinese and Western critical traditions while remaining attentive to the transcontinental connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe—connections that lie at the heart of diasporic consciousness and Pan-African solidarity. This is evidenced by her comparative studies of Ellison and T.S. Eliot, Ellison and Mikhail Bakhtin, and Ellison and Mark Twain. She has also explored broader themes such as Ethiopian cultural traditions as a beacon of anti-colonial resistance in Africa, Frantz Fanon's diasporic intellectual trajectory and its relevance to contemporary China, and the reception of African American literature in the Chinese academic context. Beyond her scholarly publications, she has translated major works by Ralph Ellison (Juneteenth), Mark Twain (The Autobiography of Mark Twain, The Diary of Adam and Eve), Vladimir Nabokov (The Original of Laura), and others, significantly enriching the Chinese readership's access to Western and African diasporic literature. She offers a wide range of courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including African Diaspora Literature, African American Film, Comparative and Translation Studies, and Western Literary Theory for doctoral students.
Research Grants and Projects: Professor Tan has led and participated in numerous significant research initiatives. She was the Principal Investigator of a National Social Science Fund general project titled A Study of Ralph Ellison's Literature (08BWW012). She has also been a core contributor to major national projects that advance the study of African diasporic literary and intellectual history, including the National Social Science Fund major project Translation and Study of the History of African American Literature (13&ZD127) and the National Social Science Fund key project A History of African American Literary Critical Theory (13AWW005). Other funded research includes a Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education key project (On African American Canonic Writers, ZJ00804598), a Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund project (A Cultural Study of Ralph Ellison's Literature, 506000-S20501), and multiple research and publication grants from the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education and Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, including a project on On African Writers (2019).
Honors and Awards
Professor Tan has received multiple provincial and national recognitions for her scholarship. Her monograph A Study of Ralph Ellison's Literature won the Second Prize of the 20th Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award, and her co-authored monograph On African American Canonic Writers received the Third Prize of the 19th Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award. Her article "James Baldwin's Literary Patricide and the Turn of African American Literature" won the Second Prize of the 14th Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award. She was named a Qianjiang Scholar of Zhejiang Province in 2018 and has been consistently recognized as one of China's most influential scholars in philosophy and social sciences for the periods 2012–2016 and 2016–2020. Her translation of Juneteenth received both the Second Prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education Outstanding Achievement Award and the 12th Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award in 2004. The Second Prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Higher Education Institutions Research Achievement Award in 2011.
