Professor Shao Nan is an Associate Professor at Faculty of French and Francophone Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University, a Master’s degree from Fudan University, and a Master’s degree in “European Literature and Culture” under the European Erasmus Mundus program (a joint certificate issued by France, Italy, and Greece). In 2017, he received his PhD in French Literature from Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis. In September of the same year, he joined Faculty of French and Francophone Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) as a postdoctoral fellow, and became a faculty member in September 2019. His research focuses on French Literature and Comparative Literature. He is the author of the monograph Victor Segalen and Chinese Culture: The Construction of a Vision of Life and Death (Victor Segalen et la culture chinoise: une conception de la vie et de la mort) and has published over ten academic papers on the French writer Victor Segalen and the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck in journals both in China and abroad. He has also produced several translations.
