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Sandro Jung (born 1976) is a literary scholar and Fudan Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the university-level Foreign Languages and Literature Institute at
Fudan University Fudan University (FDU) is a public university, national public university in Yangpu, Shanghai, Yangpu, Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education and is co-funded with the Shanghai Municipal ...
. Before joining Fudan University, he served as Distinguished Professor and Head of English Literature at the
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics The Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) is a public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, finance and economics university located in Shanghai, China. The university is affiliated with the ...
, where he also directed the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture. In addition to his position at Fudan University, he also serves as Jack Ma Distinguished Professor at
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, Distinguished Professor at
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, and Advisory Professor at the Shanghai International Studies University. Jung was the Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at
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. For the past 13 years, he has been the editor-in-chief of '' ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews''. Jung has been the recipient of numerous short- and long-term fellowships, including at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, where he was Eleanor M. Garvey Fellow in Printing and Graphic Arts and at Princeton University Library, where he was based in the Graphic Arts Department. In 2015, Jung was awarded a Marie Curie long-term fellowship as part of the EURIAS Junior Fellowship scheme, as part of which he researched the marketing of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish literature at the University of Edinburgh's Institute of Advanced Studies. In 2016, the
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awarded Jung a Senior Fellowship, which enabled him to undertake a major project on book illustration at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, as part of which he also organized a major exhibition at the library. And in 2018, he was awarded a Marie Curie long-term fellowship as part of the EURIAS Senior Fellowship scheme, during which he was based at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies and researched a project on the transnational fortunes of ''Robinson Crusoe''. Jung is well-known for his publications on eighteenth-century
English poetry This article focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language is spoken, including the Republic of Ireland after December 1922. The earl ...
. He is especially interested in lyric forms of poetry such as the ode and the pastoral, and he has extensively researched the (Georgic) long poem, publishing major studies of James Thomson's magnum opus, ''The Seasons''. While genre-critical and genre-historical work characterized his publications up to 2012, he has since adopted interdisciplinary approaches, especially those involving the study of text-image relationships, to recover and chart the reception and reading history of literary works. He is considered a leading authority in the field of illustration studies.


Books

*Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719-1722, Cambridge University Press, 2025 *Eighteenth-Century Illustration and Literary Material Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2023 *Kleine artige Kupfer: Buchillustration im 18. Jahrhundert, Harrassowitz, 2018 *The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760-1825, Lehigh University Press, 2017 *Thomson’s ‘The Seasons’, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842, Lehigh University Press, 2015 *The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode, Lehigh University Press, 2009 *David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: Poetry, Patronage and Politics in the Age of Union, University of Delaware Press, 2008


References

1976 births Living people Academic staff of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter Welsh literary critics Academic staff of Ghent University Linguistics journal editors {{linguist-stub