Wang Zhenping

author: time:2018-08-22

(Last Name + First Name)

Degree PhD(University of Louisville)

Title Associate Professor

Email wangzhen-ping@163.com

Taught Courses English Film: Theory and Practice; American Film: Theory and Practice; Writing; Advanced English Video Course

Research Areas American Cultural Studies; Film Studies and Film Theory;
Western Humanistic Studies; Sartre’s Existential Philosophy


Education 1996- : Beijing Foreign Studies University
2006-2012: University of Louisville, PhD
1990-1992: University of Alaska Fairbanks, MA
1981-1985: Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, BA


Academic Titles Head of Social and Cultural Section of American Study Center, SEIS

Overseas Experience 1990-1992: University of Alaska Fairbanks, MA
2009-2010: Cambridge University, Academic Visitor
2003-2004: Ohio State University, Visiting Scholar


Publications Publications
2014: Sartre’s Existential Freedom, Walker Percy, Edward Hopper, Mike Nichols Works of Art 1940-1970. Saarbrucken, Deutschland/Germany: Scholar’s Press
2014: An Advanced Video Course ( in collaboration with Chunbo Zhang, and Dong Zhao) Student Book and Teacher’s Edition, Editor in chief. 2nd edition. Beijing: FLTRP
2014: The Study of English Content Courses and Critical Thinking, (in collaboration with Limin Jin) FLTRP
2006: An Advanced Video Course (in collaboration with Chunbo Zhang, and Dong Zhao) Student Book and Teacher’s Edition, Editor in chief. Beijing: FLTTP
2012. 3 “Undefined Man: the Existential Search in Walker Percy’s
Novel The Moviegoer.” Intercultural Communication Studies
2010. 4 “The Reconciliation of Reason and Faith in Gothic Period of Medieval Europe” Journal of CambridgeStudies
2010. 1 “Action Research on Video Course.” ( in collaboration with Qin Ma)
Journal of Cambridge Studies
2009. 1 “Symbolism in American Beauty: A Semiotic Study of Meanings Represented by Rose.” Chinese Semiotic Studies
2009. 1 “Raising and Lowering Speaker’s or Hearer’s Position in Politeness
Principle in Intercultural Communication.” Intercultural Communication Studies USA
2009“Traces of Chinese Painting and Ideogram in In a Station of the Metro.”
Intercultural Perspective. Ed.Youzhong Sun et al. Beijing: Higher Education Press
2008. 1 “The Impact of Existentialism on China’s Democratic Education through
Globalization.” Intercultural Communication Studies


Research Projects 2011: “Movie Studies”, BFSU course project
2008: Core participant in Beijing Fine Course project, coordinated by Beijing Post and Communication University, Beijing Municipal Project
2006: “English Video Course”, BFSU Fine Course project
2002: “An Advanced Video Course”, the State 10th Five-year Plan Textbook project, State project.


Awards & Honours 2008: Beijing Fine Textbook Project Award, Beijing Municipal Council

Invited Lectures 2009-5 “Advanced Video Course”, open class, lecture, and discussion”, Beijing Post and Communication University



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