Recently, under the guidance of Liu Ying, Professor of English department and doctoral supervisor of our college, Wang Zhiyi’s graduation thesis “Research on dystopia in postmodern myth Kemira from the perspective of space criticism”, as the only liberal arts thesis in our university, was rated as the excellent graduation project (thesis) of the 12th Tianjin Municipal undergraduate students.
Professor Liu Ying, the instructor, said: Wang Zhiyi’s paper analyzes the social space in Kemira from the perspective of space criticism, subverts the traditional power relationship in the form of alternative space, and discusses how the text space uses the special narrative mode to disintegrate people’s habitual language system, with a clear sense of problems. Space criticism is the frontier subject of current literary criticism, and the combination of Foucault’s space theory and Bath’s postmodern literature is a new exploration. Therefore, the paper has innovation in method and content, and has high academic value.
For a long time, the College of Foreign Languages has attached great importance to the work of undergraduate graduation thesis. Teachers and students of all majors work together to innovate, strengthen the process management of graduation thesis writing, strictly review the topic selection of thesis, standardize the writing requirements, and strictly control the quality of thesis, so as to continuously improve students’ academic self-cultivation and the completion quality of graduation thesis.
The selection of excellent graduation projects (theses) of Tianjin colleges and universities is organized by Tianjin Education Commission. This year, our university has won three undergraduate theses, which is also guided by Li Bing, the professor and doctoral supervisor of the English department in 2012, Hou Dianfeng of the translation department (now a postdoctoral teacher of our college) won this honor for the second time since his graduation thesis “Word formation and phonological analysis of English national adjectives” was awarded the Third Tianjin undergraduate excellent graduation project (thesis), which is a manifestation of the continuous improvement of the overall level of undergraduate education quality of our college.
