Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne; Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing

Global Englishes and Global Chineses
12:40-1:15 p.m. Monday October 17, 2005
102 Kern Building

Prof. Wang, one of China’s leading and most intriguing humanist scholars in literary and cultural studies, will visit Penn State on October 17-18, 2005. Prof. Wang has been a Ford Distinguished Seminar Visiting Professor at Yale University (2001), a Northrop Frye Fellow at the University of Toronto (1993), and an Ibsen Fellow at the University of Oslo (1996). He is Secretary-General of the International Association for Literary Theory and Criticism (since 2000) and Vice President of the Chinese Association for Sino-Foreign Literary Theory (since 2004). He is currently editor of the Chinese version of the international journals Critical Inquiry (since 2004) and New Literary History (since 2001) and has lectured at over 70 universities in Asia, North America, Africa, Australia, and Europe.

Wang has published extensively both at home and abroad. He is the author of 10 books and some 300 articles in Chinese. His dozens of articles in English have been published in New Literary History, Critical Inquiry, European Review, boundary 2, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, and Ibsen Studies, among others. His recent work includes "Orientalism versus Occidentalism?" New Literary History 28:1 (1997): 57-67; "Confronting Western Influence: Rethinking Chinese Literature of the New Period," New Literary History 24:4 (1993): 905-26; "Canon Formation, or Literary Revisionism: The Formation of the Modern Chinese Literary Canon," Neohelicon 31:2 (2004): 161-74; "The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity," in Postmodernism and China, ed. Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000), 21-40; "Northrop Frye and Cultural Studies, in Northrop Frye: Eastern and Western Perspectives, ed. Jean O'Grady and Wang Ning (Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2003), 82-91; and "Modernity and Whitman's Reception in Chinese Literature," in Whitman East and West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman, ed. Ed Folsom (Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2002), 197-207.