YANG Jiping is a professor of English and American Literature and academic adviser for MA and MTI program in the School of Humanities at BUPT. She was the Chinese-American Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of Virginia in America in 2011 to 2012. She teaches courses such as English and American Poetry, American Novels, Western Culture and British Literary History. Her research interest is British and American literature. She has authored two monographs, co-authored two more, translated seven novels and edited several textbooks. She has also directed two research projects funded by Ministry of Education and another two by BUPT. Besides, she has published more than 30 academic papers.