Li Ru Lu is associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. Her areas of interest include Early American Literature, Literature-and-Environment Studies, and American poetry. Her r
...MoreLi Ru Lu is associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. Her areas of interest include Early American Literature, Literature-and-Environment Studies, and American poetry. Her recent publications include a book entitled “Writing the Wilderness Environment: The Discourse of Wilderness Preservation in the Texts of American Environmental Writers” (published by Bookman in 2005) and “Uncovering New Ground for American Nature Writing: Discourses of Natural History from John Bartram to Wilson Flagg” (published by Common Ground in 2014). Also, she writes plenty of papers published by the academic journals in Taiwan and America, including “The Conservation Ethics and Environmental Sustainability in Thomas Wilson Flagg’s Literary Natural History” (published by “The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability” in 2014), “Early National American Identity-building in John Kirk Townsend’s ‘Narrative of a Journey’” (published by “The International Journal of Literary Humanities” in 2013), “Representing the Natural Space in pre-Revolutionary America: an Ecocritical Understanding of John Bartram” (published by “The Journal of Contemporary Thought” in 2012), “Voyaging to the New World and Narrating Discovery: Peter Kalm’s Delineation of New England in ‘Travels in North America’” (published by "Review of English and American Literature" in 2012), “Alexander Wilson’s Delineation of Early America’s ‘Lovely Face of Nature’" (published by “Humanitas Taiwanica” in 2010), and so forth.
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