Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2002-2010

LIANSU MENG

Assistant Professor of Chinese
Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages
Affiliated Faculty
Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies / Oak Hall East SSHB Room 203
365 Fairfield Way Unity 1057
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1057
Email:
Phone: 860-486-9258

Education

M.A. in English, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 1994-1997

B.A. in English, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China 1990-1994

Positions

Assistant Professor of Chinese 2013-present

Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Assistant Professor In-Residence of Chinese 2011-2013

Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Instructor In-Residence of Chinese 2010 - 2011

Department of Modern and Classical Languages, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Assistant Professor of English 1997-2002

College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“A Window to the Busy Street: Noise Pollution and Chen Jingrong’s Eco-Poetry in the 1980s.” Chinese Literature Today, vol. 5, no. 1 (May 2015): 26-33.

“From Tsinghua to Chicago: Wen Yiduo’s Transnational Conception of an Eco-Poetics.” Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, vol. 4 (September 2014): 1-51.

Editor-reviewed Journal Article

“Wen Yiduo de shengtai shiguan yu zhongguo shige de xiandaixing” 闻一多的生态诗观与中国诗歌的现代性 (“Wen Yiduo’s Eco-Poetics and the Modernity of Chinese Poetry”). Lydia H. Liu, ed., Jintian 今天 (Today): Special Issue: Chinese Poetry: Predicaments and Reflections, No. 80 (Spring 2008): 57-103. In Chinese.

Conference Proceedings

“Drifting Away or Coming Close: Chance Encounters between Chen Jingrong, the Today Poets and Baudelaire.” Travelling Text /Image/ Media: The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) Conference Collection of the Theses (Day 2 & 3) (Shanghai, China: Fudan University, 2015), 317-322.

Invited Book Reviews

Review of WN Herbert, Yang Lian, Brian Holton, Qin Xiaoyu, eds. Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2012). Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), March 2014. (http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/meng2.htm)

Review of Kwai-Cheung Lo, Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions (Albany: SUNY Press, 2010), Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) (2012), February 2014. (http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/meng.htm)

Review of John A. Crespi, Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009). Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), vol. 35 (December 2013): 279-281.

Translations

“Selected Poems” by Chen Jingrong, Chinese to English translation of “Ordinary Things” 平常事物and “My Seventy (No. 1: Sour Fruit)” 我的七十（一：酸果）, two poems by Chen Jingrong. Chinese Literature Today, vol. 5, no. 1 (May 2015): 17.

“Affect and change among men and women in modern poetry” ( “Xiandaishizhong Nannüde Qing Yu Bian” 現代詩中男女的情與變 ). Translation (Chinese to English) of an article (1998;1996) by Weng, Wenxian翁文嫻. Chinese Poetic Modernisms. Chris Lupke and Paul Manfredi, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2015 (accepted, 15 pages)

“Gei wo qinai de pengyou men” 致我亲爱的朋友们 (To My Dear Friends), translation (English to Chinese) of a letter by Wen Yiduo. Wen Yiduo shuxin shouji quanbian (Complete letters of Wen Yiduo). Wen Lipeng, Zhang Tongxia, Wen Danqing, eds. Beijing: National Library Publishing House, 2010: 412-419.

“Ping Ling yizhong guodu: dangdai zhongguo shixuan” 评《另一种国度：当代中国诗选》(Review of Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry), translation (English to Chinese) of a book review by Lucas Klein. Xinshi pinglun (New Poetry Review) 2 (2008): 81-89.

Awards, Grants and Distinctions

FIRE Award, CLAS, the University of Connecticut, 2016.

Research Excellence Program (REP) Award, the University of Connecticut, 2015-2016.

Featured in news article: Bri Diaz, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, “UConn Graduates First Majors in Chinese,” April 8, 2015. Web link: http://clas.uconn.edu/2015/04/08/uconn-graduates-first-majors-in-chinese/

Scholarship Facilitation Fund (SFF), the University of Connecticut, 2014-2015.

Faculty Travel Award, the University of Connecticut, 2011-Present

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, the University of Michigan, 2007-2008

Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, the University of Michigan, 2008

Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship, the Center for the Education of Women, the University of Michigan,

2006-2007

Rackham Barbour Fellowship, the University of Michigan, 2006-2007

Center for Chinese Studies Endowment Awards, the University of Michigan, 2005 & 2006

Department of Comparative Literature Research Grant, the University of Michigan, 2005 & 2006

Department of Comparative Literature Grant, the University of Michigan, 2003 & 2004

Department of Comparative Literature Fellowship, the University of Michigan, 2002-2003

Conference Presentations

“Engendering Opposition and Globalization: A Case Study of the Avant-Garde Poetry and Art in Today.” Presenter. The American Association of Comparative Literature (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2016.

“Drifting Away or Coming Close: Chance Encounters between Chen Jingrong, the Today Poets and Baudelaire.” Presenter. Biannual Conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL), Shanghai, China, 2015.

“The Varying Forms of Roving as a Poetic Ideal in Modern Chinese Poetry.” Presenter. The American Association of Comparative Literature (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2015.

“East Wind, West Wind, Whirl Wind: Patterns of Translation Past and Now.” Presenter. The American Association of Comparative Literature (ACLA) Annual Meeting, New York City, 2014.

“Leaps of Consciousness: Dai Wangshu’s Reflections on Modern Poethood through Zhuangzi, Baudelaire and Quantum Physics.” Presenter. Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2013.

“The Inferno Tango: Gender and Politics in Chen Jingrong’s Poetry.” Presenter. New England Association for Asian Studies (NEAAS) Conference, Amherst, 2012.

Participant, UCONN TNE Language Education Symposium “Culture and Intercultural Competence in Language Education,” Storrs, 2012.

“The Edge of the Edge: Gender Politics in the Chinese adaptation of Baudelaire in the 1940s.” Presenter. Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2012.

“Looking through the Dust: Chen Jingrong’s Poetic Dystopia in 1940s Shanghai.” NeMLA 2011 Convention, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2011.

“Woman as a Universal Sign: The Transnational Production of a Male-Centered Poetics in Guo Moruo’s The Goddesses.” Panel Chair, Organizer and Presenter. 64th Annual RMMLA Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2010.

“Smelling Machines: The Poetics of Ecology in Wen Yiduo’s Chicago Poems.” Panel Organizer and Presenter. Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2009.

“Wen Yiduo’s Eco-poetics in Chicago.” Workshop Co-organizer and Presenter. The Geopolitics of Writing and Technology, a Workshop, Columbia University, New York City, 2008.

“Interrupt Roundtable.” Participant. Interrupt 2008, Brown University, Providence, 2008.

“Wen Yiduo’s Poetics of Ecology and the Modernity of Chinese New Poetry.” Presenter. 62nd Annual RMMLA Convention, Reno, Nevada, 2008.

“Wen Yiduo’s Chicago Poetry and His Poetics of Ecology.” Discussant and Presenter. Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Columbia University, New York City, 2008.

“From Shattered Mirrors to Web: Social Spaces Opened up by Today.” Conference Co-organizer and Presenter. The Evolution of Interdisciplinary, 10th Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006.

“The Underground City of the Sun: A Close Look at Jintian’s Poetry through the Lenses of Readers’ Letters and Contributions.” Invited Presenter. Crisis and Detour: 25 Years of Today, Notre Dame University, South Bend, 2006.

“Roundtable Discussion on Research Methodology: A Dialogue between Social Sciences and Humanities.” Panelist. China: Cross-Cultural and Multi-Dimensional Perspectives, Michigan China Forum, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004

“Walking into Mystery – What Is Said and Done in Silence and Non-Action in Jia Zhangke’s Film Xiao Wu.” Michigan China Forum, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003.

Academic and Professional Service

Chair. Chinese APiR Search Committee, Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the University of Connecticut, 2016.

Member. CLCS Executive Committee, Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the University of Connecticut, 2015 - Present.

Panel organizer. “Travel and Translation: Transcultural Encounters in Chinese Literature and Film (18th century to the Present).” Biannual Conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL), Shanghai, China, June 2015.

Seminar Co-Organizer and Co-Leader. "Travel and Intersections: The Curious Identities of Modern Chinese Poetry." The American Association of Comparative Literature (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, March 2015.

Invited Peer-Reviewer for Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (FLSC), 2015.

Invited Guest Editor for a special section on Chen Jingrong. Chinese Literature Today, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015.

Graduate Faculty, the University of Connecticut, 2014.

Seminar Co-Organizer and Co-Leader, “Is the World Flat? Globalization, Translation and World Poetry,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, New York City, March 2014.

Academic Advisor for Chinese majors and minors, the Chinese Program, Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the University of Connecticut, September 2013-present.

Panel Chair and Organizer, “The May Fourth Legacy Revisited: Language and Politics in Republican China,” New England Association for Asian Studies (NEAAS) Conference, Amherst, October 2012.

Faculty Advisor, Chinese Language and Culture Club, Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the University of Connecticut, September 2012-present.

Academic Advisor, the Individualized Major Program, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2011-present.

Panel Chair and Organizer, “Gender, Language, and Class: Border Crossings in Modern Chinese Poetry,” 64th Annual RMMLA Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2010.

Panel Organizer, “ ‘E’-volutions? Technology and Transformation in Modern Chinese Poetry,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2009.

Translator, Interview Transcripts of Andrea Lee Smith (June 24, 2003) and Cathy Cohen (April 16, 2004), Global Feminisms: Comparative Case Studies of Women’s Activism and Scholarship, U.S. Site, Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Winter 2008. (Translations used for course materials at the Workshop on Teaching Methodology and Research in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.)

Co-organizer, The Geopolitics of Writing and Technology, a Workshop, Columbia University, New York City, October 2008.

Co-Founder and Coordinator, East Asian Gender Forum, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2005 - Winter 2006.

Organizer, Brown Bag Lecture Series, Department of Comparative Literature, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2005-Winter 2006.

Co-organizer, Comparative Literature Inter-student and Faculty Forum (CLIFF), Department of Comparative Literature, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 2006.
Courses Taught

The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 2010-present

CLCS 5318: Topics in Chinese Literature

CLCS 5318: Modern Chinese Literature and Film

CHIN 3299: Independent Study

CHIN 3282: Women in Chinese Literature and Film

CHIN 3271: Topics in Chinese Literature

CHIN 3260: Contemporary Chinese Culture

CHIN 3250W: Advanced Chinese

CHIN 3210: Chinese Composition and Conversation

CHIN 1122: Modern Chinese Culture

CHIN 1121: Traditional Chinese Culture

CHIN 1113-1114: Intermediate Chinese I & II

CHIN 1111-1112: Elementary Chinese I & II

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

College English Reading and Writing 1997- 2002

Languages

Mandarin Chinese (native)

English (near-native)

French (reading)

Japanese (reading)

Professional Affiliations

Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL)

New England Association for Asian Studies (NEAAS)

Liansu Meng CV