Metropolitan Orientation and Sense of Nativeness With Reference to V. S. Naipaul

Dr. Lei Yanni is Associate Professor at Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University. She is also supervisor of PhD candidates and cooperative supervisor of post-doctoral scholars. She takes charge of the English Poetry Studies Institute in Sun Yat-sen University. She is a member of the editing board of EPSIANS, the international academic journal on literature. She was once visiting scholar respectively in the University of Edinburgh, the University of Cambridge and the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include English poetry and poetics, the study on novel, and the study on literary and cultural theories. She has published dozens of articles on important academic journals. She has chaired several national and provincial research projects. Her email is leianny@aliyun.com.