Editorial Advisory Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Wang Songlin, Ningbo University, China
Associate Editor-in-Chief：
Zhang Zhi, Ningbo University, China
Editorial Assistants
Chen Lele, Li Huihui, Ma Sitao, Wang Youkun, Ningbo University, China
Members of Editorial Advisory Board:
William Baker, Northern Illinois University, USA
Chen Xushi, Ningbo University, China
Cheng Wen, Ningbo University, China
Deng Yingling, Hunan Normal University, China
Duan Bo, Hangzhou City University, China
Guo Haixia, Shanghai Maritime University, China
Kristian Van Haesendonck, South China University of Technology, China
Jiang Xiuyun, Hainan Normal University, China
Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University, Korea
Dae-geun Lim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Liu Shuang, Ocean University of China, China
Ni Nongshui, Zhejiang Ocean University, China
Zhu Hua, Shanghai Ocean University, China
Editors-in-Chief Introduction
Professor Wang Songlin
WANG Songlin is a Distinguished Professor of “Yongjiang Scholar Program” and “Anzhong Chair Professor” at Ningbo University, China. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Research of World Maritime Literature and Culture at Ningbo University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Maritime Literature and Culture. He received his BA in English in 1986(Jiangxi Normal University), MA in English in 1989(East China Normal University), and PHD in World Literature and Comparative Literature in 2008 (Central China Normal University). From 1989 to 2009, he worked at the School of Foreign Languages of Jiangxi Normal University. Since September 2009, he has been working at Ningbo University. He was once a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (2001-2002) and later a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh (2014-2015). His main academic positions include: Deputy Secretary of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism (IAELC), Executive Member of the Chinese Society for Comparative Study of Chinese and Foreign Languages and Cultures (CSCSCFLC),Vice President of the Literature Education Committee of CSCSCFLC, Executive Member of the Chinese Society of English Literature, Vice President of the Zhejiang Provincial Society for Foreign Literature and Comparative Literature,Member of the Academic Degrees Assessment Committee of Zhejiang Province, Corresponding Fellow of the English Association (FEA), U.K.He has led three National Social Science Fund projects, including one key project on the formation of British and American maritime literature. He has published widely on Joseph Conrad, Thomas Carlyle, ethical literary criticism, comparative literature, and blue humanities. Notable publications include: A Study of the Ethics in Conrad’s Novels; In Search of Literature Exiled: Essays on Western Literature; A History of English Literature (co-authored); A Study of the Theory of Ethical Literary Criticism (co-authored); Classics in Literary Theory and Criticism by Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences:A Translation Series (9 volumes, associate editor); and Studies in World Maritime Culture and History: A Translation Series (10 volumes, general editor). His main articles published recently include: “Aesthetical Ethics and the Subjectivity of AI Aesthetics” (ANQ, 4(2025):614-621), “Past and Present: Thomas Carlyle, Meritocracy and the ‘China Model’” (JSPP, 4.1(2025):54-69), “In the Company of Claude Rawson: Revisiting the Writings of Barbarism in Chinese and Foreign Literature” (ISL,1(2025):197-208), “‘Blue Poetics’: A Study of Maritime Literature from an Interdisciplinary Perspective” (JPLAUFL, 3 (2023)35-43”, among others. He was Awarded the First Prize of the 9th Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Award in Higher Education (2024, ranked among the top three contributors) by the Ministry of Education, P.R.C., and won the Lighthouse Award, the highest honor of the 4th Yantian Maritime Book Award (2025). His academic interests include 19th-century British literature, ethical literary criticism, interdisciplinary studies of literature and education, and blue poetics.
