Li Yun is a professor of English in the School of Foreign Languages in South China University of Technology. Her expertise is in literary and cultural criticism. She has led several research projects and published widely on ethical literary and cultural studies, feminism, and Marxism. She also does researches on literature produced by marginalized communities, including female (and) working-class writings. Currently, she concentrates her efforts on a project on world refugee literature study. In 2015 to 2016, she was Chau Hoi Shuen Scholar-in-Residence in The University of Canifornia-Berkely. From 2017 on, she is an invited professor in Institut d'etudes politiques de Rennes in France, teaching about gender and China.