Chen Cui

Chen Cui is a doctoral researcher in English literature and medieval studies at Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland, co-supervised at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He has also served as part-time lecturer of medieval English at UNIL for three semesters. Chen Cui works on Old and Middle English and Old Norse-Icelandic literature, with a focus on eco-writing, travel writing, historiography, and mysticism.

After his undergraduate studies at Capital Normal University (CNU) in Beijing, China, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, he obtained his first MA in theoretical linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), China, followed by a double master’s degree (cum laude) in English and Germanic philology. The latter was jointly conferred by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany, entailing academic sojourns also at Venice International University, Italy, and Université de Genève, Switzerland. He has been a visiting student at Háskóli Íslands in Reykjavik, Iceland, and at Boston College, USA. Chen Cui has received training in medieval Germanic philology, including digital paleography and scholarly editing, in Göttingen, Tübingen, and Oxford in the course of his PhD odyssey.

RCC Research Project: Medieval Eco-Narrative and Self-Expression in the Œuvre of Felix Fabri (1437/8–1502)—Transformed Landscape and Transformative Self-Writing

Selected Publications:

• “Spatial Narrative and the Mandeville-Author’s Vision of World System: Reading Mandeville’s Travels as a Universal History.” In “After Abu-Lughod: Comparative Frames for a Global Middle Ages,” edited by Shirin A. Khanmohamadi, special issue, Exemplaria: Medieval, Early Modern, Theory (forthcoming).
• “Nature, Body, and the Entangled Self in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar”. In Human and Nonhuman Relations and Imaginaries in the Middle Ages, edited by Polina Ignatova and Emelie Fälton. Budapest: Trivent Publishing, forthcoming 2024.