ZHANG Feng TITLE/POSITION: Associate Professor
EMAIL: zhangfeng@bfsu.edu.cn
DEGREES • PhD (English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2005)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS • 2007-Present: Associate Professor • 2005-2007: Lecturer
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE • August 2015-August 2016: Visiting Scholar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK. • 2. June-July 2014: The Institute for World Literature (IWL), sponsored by Harvard University and hosted by City University of Hong Kong.
TEACHING • Postgraduate Course: 20th-century British Fiction • Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Literature; Introduction to Literary Criticism; Diasporic Literature; Intensive Reading; Argumentative Writing; Research Paper Writing; Chinese-English Translation
RESEARCH INTERESTS • Contemporary British Fiction • Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature • Contemporary Western Literary Theory
RESEARCH PROJECTS • 2022-2027: “A Study of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Creative and Critical Writing.” Funded by the National Social Science Foundation. • 2012-2017: “A Study of Contemporary British Diasporic Fiction.” Funded by Ministry of Education.
SCHOLARLY WORKS • Books: - Monograph: A Study of Contemporary British Diasporic Fiction. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2018. - Monograph: Voices of the “Other”: Counter-discourse in Jean Rhys’ West Indian Fiction. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2009. - Translation: Memory of Departure. By Abdulrazak Gurnah. Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2023. • Journal Articles: - “The Multiple Narrative Strategies and Thematic Implications in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence.” Foreign Literature Studies (CSSCI) 2 (2022): 55-67. - “Memory, Language, Heterogeneity, and Locality in Postcolonial Literature: A Review of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Thought on Writing and Criticism.” New Perspectives on World Literature (CSSCI) 2 (2022): 5-17. - “Critical Theory Today: Lois Tyson’s Misreading of Deconstruction and Deconstructive Criticism.” Foreign Literature (CSSCI) 3 (2015): 111-19. - “Writing ‘Our’ Shared History: A Review of Andrea Levy’s Small Island and The Long Song.” Journal of PLA University of Foreign Studies (CSSCI) 4 (2014): 136-42. - “Historical Narrative and Identity Construction: On Andrea Levy’s The Long Song.” World Literature Recent Developments (CSSCI) 4 (2013): 50-52. - “Wandering between the Center and the Margin: An Overview of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Diasporic Writing.” World Literature Recent Developments (CSSCI) 3 (2012): 13-15. - “Voices of the Subalterns: Postcolonial Counter-discourse in Wide Sargasso Sea.” Contemporary Foreign Literature (CSSCI) 1 (2009): 125-32. - “Resistance from the Periphery and Center of the Empire: An Interpretation of Jean Rhys’ Two West Indian Short Stories.” Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal (Core Journal) 3 (2009): 64-69. - “Diasporic Poetics and Self-construction in a Postcolonial Context: On Caryl Phillips and His Short Story ‘Growing Pains’.” Foreign Literature (CSSCI) 6 (2008): 3-10. - “An Eco-feminist Interpretation of John Fowles’ The Collector.” Journal of Sichuan International Studies University (Core Journal) 5 (2004): 42-45. - “An Elegy for Women’s Objectification: On John Fowles’ The Collector.” Journal of PLA University of Foreign Studies (CSSCI) 5 (2003): 82-85. - “Quilting and Ethno-cultural Memory: A Cultural Interpretation of Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’.” Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal (Core Journal) 5 (2003): 16-19.
AWARDS & HONOURS • 2006, 2007, 2014: “Margaret Turner Award” (BFSU) • 2022: “Outstanding Research Achievement Award” (BFSU) • 2007-Present: “Outstanding Teaching Award for Undergraduate Students” (SEIS, BFSU) • 2012-Present: “Outstanding Teaching Award for Postgraduate Students” (SEIS, BFSU)
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