The Center for Gary Snyder Studies is named after the man who is internationally recognized as the Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology. The Center was founded in 2015 at Hunan University by Professor Joan Qionglin Tan and is now housed at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE). The Center welcomes new members from around the world to join and participate in collaborative projects in the fields of ecocriticism, environmental ethics, Buddhist ecopoetics, and comparative cultural and literary studies that draw upon and broaden Snyder’s own work on behalf of a more ecological civilization.

Eco-manifesto of the Center

 I pledge allegiance to the soil

of our land,

and to the beings who thereon dwell

one ecosystem

in diversity

under the sun

With joyful interpenetration for all.

(From Gary Snyder’s “For All”, but the second line “of Turtle Island”

is changed into “of our land” due to different cultures)

The Advisory Board

Mentor

Gary Snyder

Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Davis, USA

Director

Joan Qionglin Tan

Chair Professor of English, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

Honorary Directors

Scott Slovic

University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USA; Chief Editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment from 1995 to 2020

Patrick D. Murphy

Professor Emeritus of English, University of Central Florida, USA; Founding Editor of the authoritative journal of ecocriticism ISLE from 1992 to 1995

Members of the Advisory Board in USA and European Countries

Jason Wirth

Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University, USA

Bron Taylor

Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Florida, USA; Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture

Zhaoming Qian

Professor Emeritus of English, University of New Orleans, USA; Lecture Professor of the School of Foreign Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, China

Stephen Roddy

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of San Francisco, USA 

Mark Gonnerman

Mellon Humanities Program Professor, Foothill College, California, USA

Julia Martin

Professor of English, University of the Western Cape, Republic of South Africa

Chia-ju Chang

Professor of Chinese, Brooklyn College of City University of New York, USA 

Oliver Harris

Professor of English, Keele University, UK; Chair of EBS in Europe

Chad Weidner

Professor of English, University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Jose Luis Regojo

Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Poemame, Barcelona, Spain

Members in the Mainland and Taiwan of China

Guoqiang Qiao

Distinguished Professor of English, Changjiang Scholar, Shanghai International Studies University, China; Associate Editor-in-chief of The Journal of English and American Literary Studies 

Shuyuan Lu

Professor Emeritus of Humanities & Arts, Soochow University; Distinguished Professor, Huanghe Science and Technology University, China

Yaofu Lin

Professor Emeritus of English, Taiwan University, China

Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai

Professor of English, Tamkang University, China; Director of ASLE-Taiwan

Xiangzhan Cheng  

Professor of Aesthetics, Changjiang Scholar, Deputy Dean of the School of Literature, Shandong University, China

Jian Zhang

Professor of English and Dean of the School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

Lianggong Luo

Professor of English and Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Central Normal University, China

Xiaohua Wang

Professor of Humanities & Arts, Shenzhen University, China

Hong Chen

Professor of English and Director of the PhD program in the Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literature, Shanghai Normal University, China

Xin Wang

Professor of English and Dean of the School of English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, China

Min Zhou

Distinguished Professor of English, Hangzhou Normal University, China; Associate Editor-in-chief of The Journal of English and American Literary Studies

Qiang Hu

Professor of English and Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Xiangtan University, China

Jiyong Geng

Professor of English and Dean of the School of Languages and Communication Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Yuejun Zhang

Professor of English, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China

Zongying Huang

Professor of English, Beijing Union University, China

Secretaries

Hannah Yingying Deng

School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, China

Nuno Marques  

English Language Studies Department, Umeå University, Sweden

Jiawen Luo

School of Foreign Studies, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China