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Yi Li

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, Northern Illinois University
  • M.A., media and globalization, Nottingham Trent University
  • B.A., arts, Sichuan International Studies University

Credentials

  • Professor of liberal arts, Fall 2022—present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Instructor, 2021–22, University of North Texas
  • Instructor, 2019–21, Northern Illinois University
  • IELTS tutor, 2012–13, English Language Training Service
  • Chinese tutor, 2009, Consulate General of Cambodia, China

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Outstanding Graduate Student Award, The Graduate School, Northern Illinois University, 2020
  • Robert T. Self-Graduate Award for Dissertation Support, Northern Illinois University, 2020
  • Director's Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for Excellence in Teaching First-Year Composition, Northern Illinois University, 2020
  • Certificate of Completion, Online Course at Design Academy, Northern Illinois University, 2020
  • Department of English Professional Development Certificate, Northern Illinois University, 2016

Organizations

  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Literature/Film Association
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

Publications and presentations

Conference publications

  • "New Realism and Asian Diaspora in the Post-Millennium Queer Cinema," presented at Building Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottinghamshire, UK, April 2022.
  • "The Extraordinary Ordinaries: "'Cool Britannia' and Young Working-Class Men in the 90s New Lad Films," presented at British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University, Virtual Conference, February 2022.
  • "The Leather Boys: Homosexuality in British New Wave Cinema," presented at Midwest Conference on British Studies, Chicago, IL, September 2019.
  • "Poetic Realism on a Blank Canvas: Homonormativity and Urban Identity in Andrew Haigh's Weekend (2011)," presented at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2019.
  • "Thatcher's 'Ghost Town' and the Transformative Launderette: Negotiating Hybrid Identity through Narrative Space in Kureishi-Frears's My Beautiful Launderette," presented at Literature/Film Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2018.
  • "Beyond Asian American Stereotypes: Keye Luke's Dichotomous Representation in Phantom of Chinatown," presented at Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, April 2016.

Selected publications

  • "Beyond Asian American Stereotypes: Keye Luke's Dichotomous Representation in Phantom of Chinatown," Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies R&D, 2016.
  • "Gender is Cultural Rather Than Natural – Jane Campion's The Piano," Overseas English, 2014.
  • "Queer Asia: Homosexuality in Farewell My Concubine," China Academic Journals, 2014.