主要研究领域为儿童文学研究、英美文学研究，同时积极服务国家文化发展战略。目前主持国家级和省部级科研项目两项：国家社科基金中华学术外译项目“儿童文学：学科与建构”、江苏省教育厅社科基金重大项目“跨界儿童文学的改编及传播研究”，以及已主持完成江苏省社科基金项目“当代西方绘本理论批评研究”。在国内外核心期刊发表论文近20篇，其中2篇被收录于劳特利奇和麦克米伦出版社的国际学术专著。学术专著《问题的文学：非虚构文学与批判的儿童》（22万字）的翻译出版进一步拓展了儿童文学研究领域的理论视野。作为活跃在国内外学界的学者，担任多家A&HCI、SSCI索引期刊的编委和审稿工作，担任多个国内外儿童文学研究学会理事，受邀在多个国际学术会议作主旨报告。同时注重学术成果的转化应用，多次为中小学开展英语文学阅读与教学专题讲座，推动理论研究与教育实践的结合。
曾获主要奖项如下：
苏州大学最受学生喜爱的老师（2025）
苏州大学交通银行奖教金“教学新秀奖”（2024）
外研社“教学之星”大赛全国总决赛亚军、半决赛冠军（2023）
苏州市哲学社会科学优秀成果奖（2022）
苏州大学优秀本科毕业论文指导教师（2023、2022）
作为核心编写成员参与撰写的学术著作Charting an Asian Trajectory for Literacy Education: Connecting Past, Present and Future Literacies获得英国读写教育研究协会（UKLA）年度最佳学术编著奖提名（2022）
微课《英国湖区：浪漫主义的灵感之源》获得江苏省高校微课大赛一等奖（2020）
“外研社国才杯”全国英语演讲大赛全国总决赛亚军指导教师（2020）
“外研社国才杯”全国英语演讲大赛江苏省赛区一等奖指导教师（2023、2020、2019）
江苏省双创博士（2017）
苏州大学优秀青年学者（2017）
UK International Board on Books for Young People Bursary (2015)
CSC Cambridge International Full Scholarship (2013-2016)
MPhil Distinction, University of Cambridge (2013)
主要研究成果如下：
（一）代表性同行评审期刊论文
He, Qianwei, and Shi, Xiaofei (corresponding author). “A Revolutionary Wonderland: Layered Didacticism in Chen Bochui’s Miss Alice (1931-1932).” Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 56, no. 1, 2025, pp. 104-16.
Shi, Xiaofei. “Towards a Post-age Picturebook Pedagogy.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, online 29 November, 2022, pp. 1-9.
Shi, Xiaofei. “Differences, Idiosyncrasies and Shared Humanity: Reconceptualising Crossover Literature.” International Research in Children’s Literature, vol. 15, no. 2, 2022, pp. 178-90.
Shi, Xiaofei, and Wang, Labao. “Wasted Innocence: Children and Childhood in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber.” International Research in Children’s Literature, vol. 14, no. 2, 2021, pp. 199-212.
Shi, Xiaofei. “Exploring Picturebooks through the Model of Double-scope Stories.” Language and Semiotic Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2017, pp. 114-24.
Shi, Xiaofei. “Implications of Jimmy Liao’s Picturebooks and Their Translations for Theories of Crossover Narrative.” Forum for World Literature Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, 2016, pp. 406-19.
余继，石晓菲：《一流大学研究生学术素养的养成——以剑桥大学教育系博士研究生培养为例》，《重庆高教研究》2016年第4卷第1期，第18-24页。
（二）同行评审专著章节
Shi, Xiaofei. “From the Lianhuan Hua to the Picturebook: A Glimpse into the Evolution of Literacy Education and Research in China.” Charting an Asian Trajectory for Literacy Education: Connecting Past, Present and Future Literacies, edited by Su Li Chong, Routledge, 2021, pp. 71-84.
Shi, Xiaofei. “How Fictional Representations of Intergenerational Play May Be Important for Child Readers: A Cognitive Approach.” Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind, edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Irena Barbara Kalla, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 115-30.
（三）书评
Shi, Xiaofei. “Review of Children’s Adaptation of British Literary Classics.” Bookbird, vol. 58, no. 4, 2020, pp. 119-20.
Shi, Xiaofei. “Review of Recollecting Childhood: A History of Chinese Children.” IRSCL Reviews, 2019, https://www.irscl.org/recollecting-childhood
Shi, Xiaofei. “Review of Children’s Literature in China from the Perspective of Mass Culture.” International Research in Children’s Literature, vol. 7, no. 2, 2014, pp. 223-26.
（四）学术译著
Shi, Xiaofei, translator. A Literature of Questions: Nonfiction for the Critical Child. By Joe Sutliff Sanders, Tomorrow Publishing House, 2022.
Shi, Xiaofei, translator. Children’s Literature: The Subject and Its Construction. By Ziqiang Zhu, Springer, forthcoming.