Jin, Li. Professor of English, editor in chief of the academic journal Foreign Literature, and former vice president of Beijing Foreign Studies University. Jin Li studied English at Beijing Foreign Studies University (M.A., 1986), and Texas Christian University, U.S. (Ph.D., 1993). She joined the faculty of BFSU in 1986, and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Yale University from 2000 to 2001. Jin Li is currently the vice president of China Association for the Study of American Literature
Her teaching and research interests are American fiction and American women writers. She has published extensively in the areas of American women writers and American fiction, including several monographs and a few dozen of articles.