Cui Chen

Funded by Chinese Scholarship Council, Chen Cui is a doctoral researcher specialising in Medieval European literature, his doctoral project entitled “Eco-Narrative and Self-Fashioning in Medieval European Travel Writing”. Cui’s research focusses primarily on Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic literature, but also extends to late Medieval religious writing and Arthurian literature across Europe. Cui takes ancillary interest in classics, translation studies, stylistics, and postclassical narratology. Before joining in UNIL, he has studied modern literature, medieval philology, theoretical linguistics, and pedagogy in Peking, Venice, Bamberg, and Geneva.

Education Background 

2013-2017 BA (English & Education) 

Capital Normal University, Peking, PRC

2017-2018 MA (Theoretical Linguistics) 

Beijing Language and Culture University, Peking, PRC

2018-2021 Double MA (European, American, and Postcolonial Literature) 

Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Deutschland 

(Jointly conferred and recognised also by Université Paris-Diderot and Universität Graz)

Academic Mobility

09.2015-06.2016 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Erasmus Scholarship)

02.2021-09.2021 University of Bamberg (MA Double Degree Programme)

03.2019-06.2019 & 09.2020-12.2020 Venice International University (Globalisation Programme)

02.2021-09.2021 University of Geneva (Swiss-European Mobility, funded by Swiss federal government)