Academic Research of College of Literature, Henan University

The College of Literature has two provincial-level key disciplines, namely, modern and contemporary literature in China and ancient literature in China, a first-class master's degree authorization point (including eight second-class master's degree authorization points), two second-class doctoral degree authorization points in modern and contemporary literature and classical philology, and a post-doctoral mobile station in China language and literature. The College of Arts is one of the main supporting departments of the Research Center of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development, a research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. It has two provincial research centers of modern and contemporary literature and literature and art in China, and three key research institutions at the school level, namely, the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture, the Institute of Henan Local Opera and the Institute of Language Application and Language Planning. It is one of the important research bases for the collation of ancient books in China.

Relying on decades of heavy academic accumulation, the College of Literature adheres to the policy of "highlighting characteristics and developing in a balanced way" and has formed its own characteristics in academic construction. For example, China's modern literature research, modern literature trend research, liberated area literature research, avant-garde novel research, women's literature research, China's ancient literature research on the collation and research of poems in the whole Tang and Five Dynasties, Ci poetry research, new Selected Works research, Yuan, Ming and Qing literature research, comparative literature and world literature research on biblical literature, comparative poetics, Beckett's novels research, literary appreciation theory research in literature and art disciplines, and aesthetic thought history research in Sui and Tang Dynasties. The study of modern Chinese grammar in Chinese language and literature, the collation and research of Shuo Wen Jie Zi, the study of modern Chinese grammar, the study of China folklore and folk literature and art in folklore, and the study of social and cultural anthropology all have certain influence in academic circles, and some of them are well-known at home and abroad.