On the afternoon of April 11st, hosted by the Department of Graduate Work of the Party Committee and organized by the Academic Department of the Graduate Union, “a ‘date’ with teachers for graduate students during the tea break”was held in the meeting room 110 of the CFL. Lu Ying, a professor of the English Department of the CFL and doctoral supervisor, was invited to deliver a speech on “New Trends of Literary Geography--Study on Mobility”and conversed with the graduates.
First of all, the research background is briefly introduced. What is the mobility? Why we attempted to study the mobility? And why we started to study the mobility of the literature? She distinguished “movement”from “mobility”. She said that “movement”referred to the physical movement-- move from A to B, while mobility was embodied with values and ideology. Such subjects as the representations and practices of the mobility should be studied. Afterwards, the breakthroughs in the study of mobility was stated. As an interdisciplinary study combining literature, transport and geography, urban studies and tourism studies, the study of mobility emphasized the correlation between the politics and scale of the mobility. Taking the American literature from the 1850s to 1940s as the research subject, the research clarify how the American literature represented the mobility, which made contribution to the dynamic relations--between the local and the global, between the nationalism and the internationalism, among geographical, social and cultural mobility.
In the end, students and teachers at the spot shared their views and gains of the study. After all, the activity gave students a glimpse of what is the mobility and hoe to do such a research topic, arousing the academic interest of the students.
