1. Name: Hong Zeng
2. Education:
PhD in Comparative Literature from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2002
PhD in English and American Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1997
MA in English and American Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1994
BA in English from University of Electronic Science and Technology in 1991
3. Academic Rank: Professor
4. Category: PhD and MA advisor
5. Affiliation: School of Foreign Language, Southwest Jiaotong University
6. Area of Expertise and Research Interest:
Comparative literature, English and American Poetry, 20th Century American Novels
7. Contact: hongzeng8888@yahoo.com
8. Languages:
Chinese, English, German, French
9. Publications
Monographs:
1) A Reader’s Guide to English and American Poetry. Shanghai: Sanlian Publishing House,2020.
2) Semiotics of Exile in Comparative Literature. Sichuan Peoples Publishing House, 2019
3) Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
4) Semiotics of Exile in Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
5) Apollonian and Dionysian: Patterns of Imagery in Edith Wharton’s Tragic Novels. Rowan& Littlefield, 2009
6) A Deconstructive Reading of Chinese Natural Philosophy in Literature and the Arts: Taoism and Zen Buddhism. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004
Translation:
1) W.S. Merwin, The Shadow of Sirius. The People’s Literature Publishing House,2017.
2) An English Translation of Contemporary Chinese Poet Hai Zi. Edwin Mellen. 2005.
Selective listings of Papers:
1) “A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche’s Tragic Vision and Aestheticism” , Literature and Theology, Oxford University Press, volume 34, Issue 4. December 2020. (AHCI)
2) Celluloid Narrative of Exile and Ethical Significance: On Clara Law’s Autumn Moon and Farewell, China, Cultural Studies and Literary Theories, 2020:2. (CSSCI)
3) “A Deconstructive Reading of Taoist Influenced Chinese and American Poetry,” ClC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture. Purdue University Press. 2019: 21 (AHCI)
4) “Photography in Wang (Anyi)’s Chang Hen Ge (The Melody of Everlasting Regret).” CLC web: Comparative Literature and Culture. Purdue University Press. 2010: 12 (AHCI)
5) “Postmodernist Reading of Don Juan’s Canto 15”, Foreign Literature, 2009:6 (CSSCI)
6) Review on When I was Born: Women’s Autobiography in Modern China. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. 2009:28(2) (AHCI)
7) “Sylvia Plath and Edvard Munch: Mindscape of Chagrin”, Plath Profiles. Indiana University Press, 2010:3
8) “Brontës Sisters”, History of 19th Century English Literature, Beijing: Foreign Language teaching and Research Press, 2006.
9) “Robert Browning” History of 19th Century English Literature, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2006.
10. Research Projects:
1) 21st Century Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poets under the Perspective of Comparative Literature, general nation-fund social science project,2018.
2) Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film. Large Faculty Development Fund. Carleton College. 2009.
3) Taoist and Zen Buddhist Influenced Literature and Arts in Chengdu and Yunnan, Freeman Faculty Research Fellowship from AsiaNetwork. 2010.