弗拉基米爾·比蒂是奧地利維也納大學講席教授,歐洲科學院院士,《阿卡迪亞:國際文學文化學刊》主編,主要從事從事世界主義、創傷理論、文化批評、敘事理論等領域的研究,發表論文百余篇,出版專著9部,其近期作品主要包括《探尋全球民主:文學、理論和創傷政治》(2016)、《依附豪奪:后帝國歐洲的獻祭敘事》(2018)。2018年6月,受《外國文學研究》編輯部委托,萬曉蒙博士在比蒂訪問上海交通大學期間,就世界文學、創傷理論等前沿話題對其進行了專訪。訪談中,比蒂主要論述了世界主義理論的復雜性,指出不同的地理、社會、文化環境催生不同形式的世界主義,而世界主義由此經常以混雜的形式出現,表現出多面性、異質性的特征。比蒂不僅評述了創傷理論、敘事理論、倫理批評的最新發展,同時又結合其近期研究成果,詳細闡述了"獻祭敘事"、"教學關系"等概念。針對未來的文學和文化研究,他給中國青年學者提出了相關建議,也期待中歐未來展開合作。

Vladimit Biti is Distinguished Professor at University of Vienna, member of Academia Europaea, and editor of arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture. An author of over a hundred articles and nine books including the most recent Tracing Global Democracy Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma(2016) and Attached to Dispossession: Sacrificial Narratives in Post-imperial Europe(2018), Biti engages in a number of research areas such as cosmopolitanism, trauma theory, culture criticism, and narrative theory. On behalf of Foreign Literature Studies, Dr. Wan Xiaomeng interviewed Biti on a wide range of issues during his visit to Shanghai Jiao Tong University in June 2018. When addressing the complexity of cosmopolitanism, Biti claims that different geopolitical, social, and cultural circumstances develop different and often hybrid forms of cosmopolitanism, and thus it is so multi-faceted and heterogeneous phenomenon. Apart from commenting on the recent developments in trauma theory, narrative theory and ethical criticism, he also elaborates such concepts as "sacrificial narrative" and "pedagogical relationship". In addition, Biti offers suggestions for Chinese young scholars and expresses his hope for Sino-European cooperation in the future.