Spring 2017 LI GUO EDUCATION Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, 2010. Dissertation: “Tales of Self-Empowerment: Reconnoitering Women’s Tanci in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China.” Advisor: Maureen Robertson 雷麥倫 . M.A. English Language and Literature, Peking University, China, 2003. Thesis: “From Reason to Passion: On Milton’s Paradise Lost.” Advisor: Shen Hong 沈弘. B.A. English, Shandong University, China, 2000. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: July 2016- Present, Associate Professor of Chinese, Utah State University. January 2011- June 2016, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Utah State University. August 2010- December 2010, Instructor of Chinese, Utah State University. RESEARCH AREAS Late imperial and twentieth-century Chinese women’s narratives, performance, visuality, translation aesthetics. TEACHING COMPETENCIES: Chinese language and culture, modern Chinese literature, culture and film, late imperial and twentieth century Chinese fiction and drama, translation, East Asian literature and film; General Education Literature. COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT: Introduction to Modern Chinese Literature and Film, CHIN 3090 Narrative Ethics in East Asian Literature and Film, LANG 3570 Readings in Contemporary Chinese Culture, CHIN 3100 Translating into and from Chinese, CHIN 3540 Chinese Third Year: Reading and Writing, CHIN 3010 Chinese Second Year I & II, CHIN 2010 & CHIN 2020 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS BY FIELDS Book: (2015) Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China, Purdue UP, 2015. ISBN 1557537135. 246pp. Co-edited journal special issues (2017) “Special Issue: Animating Chinese Cinemas,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas (Routledge), 11.1 (2017), co- edited with Jinying Li, in press, 50% editorship. (2017). “Special Issue: Women, Writing and Visuality in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film,” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (Brill) 11.1, co-edited with Geraldine Fiss, 50% editorship. (2014) Zhu, Ping, Li Guo coedited. “Forum: Nation, Gender and Transcultural Modernism.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 8.1. ISSN 16737318. (2013) I-Chun Wang, Li Guo coedited. “Special issue: Asian Cultures and Globalization.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press)15.2. ISSN 14814374. Articles: (2017) Guo, Li and Jinying Li. "Animating Chinese Cinemas: A Preface." Journal of Chinese Cinemas (Routledge), 11.2 (2017): 1-8, 50% authorship. (2017) “The Aesthetics of Hysteria in Feminine Melodrama: On Fang Fang’s Water under Time.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (Brill), 11.1 (2017): 73-105.

(2017) Fiss, Geraldine, and Li Guo. “Beyond Boundaries: Women, Writing and Visuality in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film,” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (Brill), 11.1 (2017):1-6, 50% authorship. (2016) “Screening Music: Sound Techniques, Musical Comedy and Yuan Muzhi’s Scenes of City Life.” Film International, in press. (2016) “Remembering the Woman in the Diegesis: Transference in Some of Freud’s Case Histories of Hysteria.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English 7.3 (2016): 257-70. (2015) “Ethical Choices, Accidental Heroes: Reconstruction of AIDS Discourse in Yang Ziye’s The Blood of Yingzhou District (2007).” Weber Journal Spring/Summer (2015): 46-55. Invited. (2015) "Women's Wartime Life Writing in Early Twentieth-Century China." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University) 17.3 (2015): . (2014) “Review Essay: Negotiating the Traditional and the Modern: Chinese Women’s Literature from the Late Imperial Period through the Twentieth-Century.” Tulsa Studies of Women's Literature 32.1, 195-220. (2014) “Writing Women in Northeastern China: Melancholic Narrative in Mei Niang's Novellas.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 8.1 (2014): 52-77. (2014) Zhu, Ping, Guo, Li. “Introduction to Forum: Nation, Gender and Transnational Modernism.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 8.1 (2014): 1-4. (2013) “Rethinking Theatrical Images of the New Woman in China's Republican Era.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.2 (2013): (2013) Wang, I-Chun; Guo, Li. “Introduction to Asian Culture(s) and Globalization.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.2 (2013): (2013) Liu, Chien-hang; Guo, Li; Wang, I-Chun. “Bibliography for the Study of Asian Culture(s) and Globalization.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.2 (2013): (2012) “Rethinking Female Voice and the Ideology of Sound: A Study of Stanley Kwan’s Film Center Stage (1992).” Film International 3 (2012): 72-81. (2011) “Making History Anew: Feminine Melodrama in Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City.” Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (2011) “The Legacy of Crossdressing in Tanci: On A Histoire of Heroic Women and Men.” Frontier of Literary Studies in China 5.4 (2011): 566-99. Book chapters: (In progress) “Gendering the Nation-State: Revisiting Nineteenth Century Chinese Women’s Tanci Novels.” For Wiley- Blackwell Companion to World Literature, under contract, edited by Christopher Lupke. (Upcoming) “Xuetou, Humor and the Politics of Laudable Satire in Maoist pingtan .” For Maoist Laughter (under review), co-edied by Ping Zhu, Zhuoyi Wang and Jason McGrath. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, submitted. (Upcoming) “Animated History, Plasmatic Reality: China's Folktale Animation Films from 1941 to 1965.” Invited chapter for Chinese Film Historiography, edited by Jason McGrath for Routledge AFI Film Readers Series, submitted. (Upcoming) Guo, Li., Weng, Leihua. “Two Souls, One World: Autobiographical Writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Ding Ling.” Christopher Lupke and Julia White, ed. Urban Conflict and Transnational Modernism in the Interwar Era, submitted. (2003) “The Drama of the ‘Child’ in Sally Morgan's My Place,” Chen Zhengfa ed. Looking Back and Forward: Papers from the 8th International Conference of Australian Studies in China, 2004. 437-53.

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Book review (2016) “Review: Ronald Egan, The Burden of Female Talent. Harvard University Asiatic Center, 2013.” Chinese Literature Today (CLT), forthcoming. Translations (2016) “On Confessions (懺情之書),” by Chu T'ienwen 朱天文. CLT 5.2 (2015): 65-69. (2014) Li, Huijun. “The Individual VS the Epoch in Oral History: On Xing Xiaoqun’s Novel We Experienced Adversities.” CLT 4.1 (2014): 142-44. (2014) Guo, Ting. “Recording the Explosion of Civilization: On A Gazetteer of the Village ‘Explosion.’” CLT 4.1 (2014): 134-35. (2014) Li, Nan. “Tu Ziqiang’s Personal Regret.” CLT 4.1 (2014): 131-32. AWARDS AND HONORS (2017) USU Open Educational Resources Grant, 2017-19, $1000. (2017) Nominee, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Giraffe Award. (2016) Nominee, Researcher of the year, LPCS department, declined. (2016) Nominee, Undergraduate Research Mentor of the year, LPCS Department, declined. (2016) College of Humanities and Social Society (CHaSS) Faculty Research and Data Collection Travel Funds, Utah State University, $1000. (2015) Nominee, CHaSS Giraffe Award for Asian Studies course development. (2015) Center for Women and Gender Studies Research Funds, $500. (2014) Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, LPCS Department. (2014) Nominee, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend Award, one of the two candidates selected from Utah State University to submit application to NEH office. (2014) Washington DC Faculty Visit/Interface Award. (2013) Researcher of the year, LPCS Department. (2013) Nominee, Teacher of the year, LPCS Department. (2013) Nominee, Undergraduate Research Mentor, LPCS Department. (2012) USU Center for Women and Gender Studies Research and Travel Funds ($500 in February, $500 in October). (2012) CHaSS Faculty Research and Conference Travel Funds ($800 in February, $1000 in October). (2012) Performance Recognition ($1000), LPCS Department. (2011) NEH Summer Seminar Award for College and University Teachers, Shanghai and Berlin: Cultures of Urban Modernism in Interwar China and Germany ($4500), Stanford University. (2010) Seed Grant, for the development of USU Study Abroad Program in Mainland China ($3000), Office of Global Engagement. (2009) T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Award ($3000), University of Iowa. Funded for research trips to Shanghai and Academia Sinica, Taipei. (2008) Story in Theory: Andrew E. Mellon Dissertation Summer Seminar ($4500), The University of Iowa. PEER-REVIEW ACTIVITY Invited journal article reviewer for: PMLA, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Rocky Mountain Review; invited book manuscript reviewer for Palgrave. 3