Zhu Gang

Zhu Gang, Professor of English, Nanjing University, China. He got his BA from Anhui University, MA from Shanghai International Studies University, and Ph.D. from Nanjing University. His research field is English and American literature and critical theory, focusing mainly on the late 19th and early 20th century American literature, and post structuralist theories. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma (2008-2009) and Harvard (1999- 2000), attended the “School of Criticism and Theory” (Cornell University, 2000), and did post-doctoral research at the University of Leuven, Belgium (1994-1995). His publication includes Reader, Text, and the Nature of Literary Reading – A Critical Survey of Wolfgang Iser’s Theory of Reading. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1998 (in English); Contemporary Western Literary Theories: Reading and Thinking (Peking University Press, 2006), A New American Literary History (Vol. II) (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2002), “Theory Today and Tomorrow: An Interview with Vincent Leitch” (Foreign Literature Studies, 5/2009), “Return of Literary Canon: Pros and Cons of Theory” (Foreign Literature Review, 3/2008), and “Trouble with Boys, Trouble with Feminism, and Trouble with Critical Theory” (Journal of Literature, Sept. 18, 2007). He has undertaken research projects such as “Wolfgang Iser Studies” (A Provincial Project for Humanities 1997-1998), “Edward Said and His Post-colonialism” (A National Education Commission Project for Humanities and Social Sciences 2001-2010), and “20th Century Literary Criticism in the United States” (A State Project for Humanities and Social Sciences 2008-2015). Currently he is Director of “China Association for the Study of American Literature” (CASAL).

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Email: gzhu@nju.edu.cn