| (Last Name + First Name) |
| Degree |
PhD（Louisiana State University） |
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| Title |
Professor |
| Email |
zaixinzhang@126.com |
| Taught Courses |
March 1998 – present, English Department, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Graduate Courses: 20th-century Literary Theory, Practicing Literary Theory, 18th-century English Novel, Chaucer.
Undergraduate Courses: Creativity and Fallacies in the Media, Selected Short Stories and Western Culture, Reading Fiction, Creative & Critical Thinking, English Composition and Creative Thinking, English Composition and Critical Thinking.
March 1993 – March 1998, Department of Foreign Languages, Renmin University
of China.
Graduate Course: 20th-Century Literary Theory.
Undergraduate Courses: Selected Short Stories and Western Culture, English Literature.
August 1985 – May 1991, Department of English, Louisiana State University
Freshman English. |
| Work Experience |
2008 – 2010, committee of faculty development, School of English and International Studies.
2003 – 2009, committee of academic affairs, School of English and International Studies.
2000 – 2005, director, Center for English and American Literature.
1999, head coach of the BFSU debating team, winner of the Third National College English Debating Competition, Beijing. |
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| Education |
Louisiana State University, Ph.D., English, December 1991.
Arizona State University, M.A., English, June 1985.
Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, B.A., English, June 1982. |
| Positions |
September 1999 – present, professor, English Department/School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University.
March 1998 – August 1999, associate professor, English Department, Beijing Foreign Studies University.
March 1993 – March 1998, associate professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China.
August 1985 – May 1991, teaching assistant, Department of English, Louisiana State University.
August 1982 – August 1984, teaching assistant, Australian Program of the Language Training Center, Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute. |
| Overseas Experience |
Fulbright Scholar, Cornell University, August 2005 – July 2006.
Post-doctorial visiting scholar, University of Paris-IV (at la Sorbonne), January 1992 – January 1993. |
| Publications |
College English Composition: From Creative Thinking to Critical Thinking, ed. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2014.
English Composition: From Creative Thinking to Critical Thinking, Book 4: Critical Thinking and Argumentation, ed. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2011.
English Composition: From Creative Thinking to Critical Thinking, Book 1: Creative Thinking and Prewriting, ed. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2010.
Reading the Short Story in English, ed. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2009.
“‘Postmodern’ Space in the Heart of Beijing: From the National Theater to the Palace Museum.” PMLA 122.1 (2007): 256-63. (“Correspondents at Large” article)
“Voices of the Self in Fiction: An Alternative Marxist Approach.” Neophilologus 78.1 (1994): 3-19.
“Defoe’s `Man-Woman` Roxana: Gender, Reversal, and Androgyny.” Etudes Anglaises 86.3 (1993): 272-288.
Voices of the Self in Daniel Defoe’s Fiction (Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 1993).
“Free Play in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela.” PLL 27.3 (1991): 307-319.
“Medieval Visual Arts and the Barred Window in Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale.” English Language Notes, 28.3 (1991): 10-17. |
| Research Projects |
Creative thinking and critical thinking in English composition, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2007 – 2009.
Selectivity of Ideology: Text and Sub-text in American Literature, Fulbright research project, 2005 – 2006.
New Idea Oral English for College Students, project for the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” National Textbook Program for Higher Education, 2003 – 2005. |
| Awards & Honours |
August 2005 – July 2006, grant for a 10-month visit to Cornell University from the Fulbright Program.
1995, grant from the State Commission of Education Distinguished Young Teachers Foundation.
1995, University Distinguished Teachers Award, Renmin University of China.
1994, Beijing Distinguished Young Scholars in Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Award.
1993, grant from the State Commission of Education Chinese Scholars from Abroad Foundation. |
| Conference Presentations |
June 2013, “Model UN, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking.” Integration of International Courses into the Secondary Education Curriculum in Beijing. Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences.
October 2012, “English Composition: From Creative Thinking to Critical Thinking.” Workshop on the teaching of English composition, the 8th International Symposium on EFL Writing Research and Teaching in China, Shandong University.
December 2010, “A C&C Thinking Approach to Teaching English Composition,” round-table and keynote speech, High-level Forum on the Teaching of English Composition and Critical Thinking, Beijing Foreign Studies University. (C&C Thinking = Creative and Critical Thinking)
October 2010, “A C&C Thinking Approach to Teaching English Composition: Theory and Practice,” the 7th Cross-Strait Conference on Foreign Language Teaching & Learning, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
September 2010, “Integrating Creative and Critical Thinking into the Teaching of English Composition.” Workshop on the teaching of English composition, the 7th International Symposium on EFL Writing Research and Teaching in China, Jilin University.
November 2007, “‘Postmodern’ Space in the Heart of Beijing: From the National Theater to the Palace Museum,” Beijing Forum, Peking University.
May 2005, “Text and Sub-text in American Literature,” keynote speech, Conference of the Chinese Association of American Literature, Shanghai University.
November 2004, “Selectivity of Ideology,” keynote speech, Conference of the Chinese Association of English Literature, Fuzhou University.
October 1998, “Free Play of Signification in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ‘A Crown of Feathers,’” Conference of the Chinese Association of American Literature, Xi’an International Studies University.
October 1997, “Deterritorialization of the Gender Code in Defoe’s Roxana,” keynote speech, Conference of the Chinese Association of English Literature, Hebei University. |
