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Xudong Zhang CURRICULUM VITAE Office 19 University Place, Room 510 Department of East Asian Studies New York University New York, NY 10003 (212)998-7620(Main office of Dept. of East Asian Studies) (212)998-8796(Main office of Dept. of Comparative Literature) (212)998-7622(direct line) Email: [email protected] Education Ph.D., Duke University (Graduate Program in Literature), 1995 BA, Peking University (Department of Chinese Language & Literature), 1986 Employment Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Studies, New York University, 2005- present Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Studies, New York University, 2001-2005 Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Studies, New York University, 1999-2001 Assistant Professor of Asian Studies & Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, 1995-1999 Lecturer of Literary and Aesthetic Theory, Department of Musicology, The Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, 1987-90 Professional Activities Co-Editor, Bloomsbury Cultural History of East Asia, Vol. 1900-2000 Editorial Board/Regional Editor-China, International Journal of Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, 2015-present Fellow and Academic Board, Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture, Santa Monica & New York, 2015-Present Editor, Frontier of Literary Studies in China, a refereed English-language quarterly published by Higher Education Press, Beijing, China, 2012-present Editor, “Critical Theory and Literary Studies” book series, Peking University Press, 2014-present Co-editor (with Nakajima Takahiro and Paul Pickering), Papers from the Winter Institute series, University of Tokyo Center of Philosophy Booklet series, 2016-present Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Chinese Studies, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2012-present 2 Academic Advisory Committee, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University, 2016-present International Academic Advisory Committee for Yenching Academy, Peking University 2009-19 Guest Editor, Boundary 2 special issue on "Postmodernism and China" (coedited with Arif Dirlik), Fall 1997 Guest Editor, Social Text special issue on "Intellectual Politics after Tiananmen," Summer, 1998 ~Editorial Board, 1998 Dongxifang wenhua pinglun(East-West Culture Review), Peking University Press, Beijing, 1988-93 Contributing Editor, Shijie shixue da cidian(Encyclopedia of World Poetics), Yue Daiyun and Ni Peigeng, General Editors, Peking University Press, 1989 Administrative and Committee Services at New York University Director, International Center for Critical Theory, New York University, 2010-Present Director, China House, New York University, 2008-2020 Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, 2017 (Fall) Chair, Department of East Asian Studies, 2006-2013 Director, NYU-Beijing Summer Program, 2007-2012 Interim Director, China House, 2007-2008 Member, Foundations of Contemporary Culture Steering Committee, College of Arts & Science, 2003-08 Member, Executive Committee, NYU China House, 2005-08 Co-Chair, Faculty of Arts and Science Policy and Planning Committee, 2006-2007 Co-Chair, Graduate School Task Force on Teaching and Fellowship 2005-06 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, 2003-2006 Member, Policy and Planning Committee, Faculty of Arts & Science, 2003-2006 Member, Steering Committee, International Center for Advanced Studies, 2003-2006 Member, Language Chairs Committee, College of Arts and Science, 2004-2005 Member, Awards and Fellowships Committee, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2002-2005 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, 2001-2002 Awards, Honors, Fellowships & Visiting Positions Senior Fellow, The New Institute, Hamburg, 2022-23 Visiting University Chair Professor in the Humanities & Director of International Center for Critical Theory-PKU, Peking University, 2014-20 Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, 2019(Spring) Non-Residential Fellow, Chunqiu Institute of Strategic Studies, Shanghai, 2015-2019 Best Essay of the Year, The Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, the Chinese Association of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, for “The Ethical Self-Awareness Discourse in Chinese Enlightenment,” 2016 Visiting University Professor in the Humanities & Honorary Director, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, 3 2011-2016 Honorary Professor of Humanities, Zhejiang University, 2015-present Ministry of Education Chong Keung Visiting Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Chinese Department & Director of International Center for Critical Theory-PKU, Peking University, 2008-2014 Zijiang Visiting Chair Professor, Chinese Department, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 2002-2012 Senior Fellow and Member of the Academic Council, Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Fudan University, 2008-2012 Humanities Council Grant, New York University, 2006(Fall) Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities, International Center for Advanced Studies(ICAS), New York University, 1998-1999 Faculty Fellow, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture(CCACC), Rutgers University, 1997-1998 Rutgers University Research Council Grants, 1996-1998 Publications Books Allegories of Social Landscape: Essays in Film Studies and Film Criticism(shehui fengjing de yuyan: dianying yanjiu yu piping wenxuan), Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2021. Toward A Critical Literary History—Modernity and Formal Consciousness(pipan de wenxueshi—xiandaixing yu xingshi zijue), Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2020. Cultural Politics and the Chinese Way(wenhua zhengzhi yu zhongguo daolu), Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2015. 2nd edition, 2021. Writing In Our Times (women shidai de xiezuo), co-authored with Mo Yan, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (China), 2012. Mainland Chinese edition, Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 2013. A Dialogue on The Age of Enlightenment(duihua qimeng shidai), co-authored with Wang Anyi, Beijing: The Joint Publication Co.(sanlian shudian), 2008. Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: 1989-2001 or, the Last Decade of the Chinese Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, 2008. Chinese translation by Zhu Yu et. al., Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014. Letters from New York(niuyue shujian), Shanghai: Shanghai shudian chubanshe, 2006. Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization(quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong: xifang pubianzhuyi lilun de lishi pipan), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005. 2nd edition, 2006; 3rd edition, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2021. Traces of Criticism: Essays on Cultural Theory and Cultural Criticism, 1987 -2002(piping de zongji: wenhua lilun yu wenhua piping), Beijing: The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd., 2003, 2nd print, 2006. The Order of the Imaginary: Critical Theory and Modern Chinese Literary Discourse (huanxiang de zhixu: piping lilun yu xiandai zhongguo wenxue huayu), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997. 2nd edition, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2020. 4 Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant -Garde Fiction and New Chinese Cinema, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. Chinese translation by Cui Wenjin et. al., Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014. Edited volumes and translations: Papers from the 2018 Winter Institute, co-edited with Takahiro Nakajima and Paul Pickering, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center of Philosophy, 2019. Tradition and Formal Innovation(chuantong yu xingshi chuangyi), ed. and introduced by Xudong Zhang, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2015. Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts (UTCP Booklet No. 21/ICCT Series 1), co-edited with Nakajima Takahiro and Hui Jiang, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2011. Illuminations: Selected Essays of Walter Benjamin, edited by Hannah Arendt, co-translated with Ban Wang, introduced by Xudong Zhang, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998; 2nd edition, 2012. Mainland China edition: Beijing: Shanlian shudian, 2008. Whither China? Intellectual Politics in the 1990s, edited and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Duke University Press, 2001. Postmodernism and China, co-edited (with Arif Dirlik), Duke University Press, 2000. Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Selected Essays of Fredric Jameson, edited and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, co-translated with Stephen Chan et. al., Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996. Mainland Chinese edition, Beijing: Sanlian shudian., 1998; 2nd edition with a new preface by Xudong Zhang, 2012. Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Age of High Capitalism, by Walter Benjamin, co- translated with Wei Wensheng and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Beijing: The Joint Publication Co.Ltd.(sanlian shudian), 1989. 2nd edition, 2006; Taiwanese edition, Taipei: Faces Publishing LTD, 2003. Forthcoming Books Lu Xun and the Origin of Modern China Literature, under contract with the Joint Publishing Co.Ltd., Beijing, Vol. 1, forthcoming in 2022. The Conflict of Representations—Narrative of the Long-Duree in the First Decade of the Chinese Twenty-First Century, under contract with Peking University Press, forthcoming, 2022/23. Selected Articles 2021 “Humanist Melodrama As Political Allegory in Early Post-Mao China—A Critical Re-Reading of Xie Jin’s Hibiscus Town”(zuowei zhengzhi yuyan de rendaozhuyi qingjieju—chongdu xie jin de furongzhen), in Literary and Art Studies(wenyi