刘桂鑫老师研究生阶段均以汉魏六朝文学为主攻方向,重心尤在探讨古代自传。其博士论文《自传理论与汉魏六朝自传文学》,从古代自传文学创作实际出发,对自传的基本理论问题提出了不少具有创新性的看法,并首次对汉魏六朝的自传文学进行了系统的梳理。攻读博士期间,他的论文《自传诗人陶渊明》获广东省第二届中文学科博士生论坛优秀论文奖,在《社会科学研究》《华 Liu Guixin teacher graduate students are Han and Wei dynasties literature as the main direction of focus, especially in the ancient autobiography. His doctoral dissertation, “Theory of Autobiography and Autobiography of Han and Wei and Six Dynasties”, put forward many innovative ideas on the basic theoretical issues of autobiography from the actual literary creation of ancient autobiographies, and for the first time made a systematic study of the autobiographical literature in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties Combing. During his Ph.D. study, his essay “Autobiography Poet Tao Yuanming” won the Excellent Paper Award of the Second Guangdong University PhD Forum for Doctoral Students, and in “Social Sciences Research”