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| Contact Information |
Mail: Grinnell College, Dept. of Chinese and Japanese, 1115 8th Ave., Grinnell, IA 50112 |
| Phone: 641-269-4464 |
| E-mail: fengjin@grinnell.edu |
| Education |
Ph. D. in Chinese Language and Literature
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August, 2000 |
| Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies |
University of Michigan, May, 2000 |
| M. A. in Comparative Literature |
University of Illinois-Urbana, January, 1996 |
| B. A. in Chinese Language and Literature |
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, July, 1993 |
| Reserach Interests |
modern and comtemporary Chinese literature and culture, gender studies, and the Chinese Diaspora |
| Selected Publications |
The Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College (SUNY Press, 2009). http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4874-the-making-of-a-family-saga.aspx |
| Translation: Autobiography of Chen Hengzhe. Anhui Education Publications, 2006. |
| The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. Purdue University Press, 2004. |
| "Addicted to Beauty: Producing and Consuming Web-based Danmei Popular Romance." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (forthcoming, fall 2009). |
| “Exile Between Two Continents: Ettie Chin’s War Experience in China (1937-1944).” Chinese American: History and Perspectives. Chinese Historical Society of America, 2007. pp. 241-248. |
| "Struggle in That Perilous Current of Water: Chen Hengzhe's Autobiography of A Chinese Young Girl." Chinese Literature: Dialogue between Tradition and Modernity. Shanghai: Guji, 2007. pp. 506-522. |
| “The Story of Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei: On How to Become Chinese." Xiong Xianguan, ed., Gender and National Boundaries. Nanyang Technology University and Bafang wenhua, 2006. pp. 23-35. |
| “The Great (Surrogate) Mother of the West: The Genealogy of Masculinity in Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America.” Tamkang Review XXXV.1 (Autumn 2004): 57-78. |
| “Narrating Suffering, Constructing Chinese Modernity: The Emergence of the Modern Subject in Chinese Literature.” East Asia 18.1 (Rutgers University, Spring, 2000): 62-82. |
“Shizhong yu yunxuan: ershi shiji zhongguo liuri xuesheng wenxue”
(“Weightlessness and Vertigo: Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature by ‘Japan-Returned Students’”), Shanghai wenhua (Shanghai Culture) 6 (1994): 87-92. |
Reviewed: Revolution Plus Love by Liu Jianmei. The China Journal (Australian National University) 53 (January 2005): 203-205. |
Reviewed: The Literature of the New Era in Mainland China by Lu Cheng-heng. Digest of Chinese Studies (1995-1996): 87-90. |
| Recent Presentations |
"Men Conquer the World, Women Save Mankind: Web-based Popular Matriarchal Romance." International Conference on Popular Romance Studies. Brisbane, Australia, August 12-14, 2009. |
| "Queering Gender? Querying Gender: Web-based Fan Fiction." International Conference on Gender Studies. Shanghai, China, June 26-30, 2009. |
| "Addicted to Beauty: Web-based Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang." Interntional Conference on Sexuality and Gender Studies. Beijing, China, June 16-20, 2009. |
| "The Return of the Ginling Daughter." The Sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, January 11-14, 2008. |
| "Have Mouse, Will Travel." "Beyond the Book" conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, August 31- September 2, 2007. |
| "The Beginning of A Family Saga." Asian Studies Conference in Japan. Tokyo, June 25-27, 2007. |
| "Silence of the Lamb: Minnie Vautrin's Account of the Nanjing Massacre." Association for Asian Studies Annual Convention. Boston, March 22, 2007. |
“Training Her Body for God and for China: The Development of Physical Education at Ginling College (1915-1952).” The Biannual Conference of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China. National University of Singapore. Singapore, June 25-27, 2006. |
“With this Lingo, I thee Wed: Language and Marriage in Yang Buwei’s Autobiography of A Chinese Woman.” The annual Association for Asian Studies Convention. San Francisco, CA. April 6-9, 2006. |
“Exile Between Two Continents: Ettie Chin’s War Experience in China (1937-1945).” To be presented at the conference of “Branching Out the Banyan Tree: A Changing Chinese America.” San Francisco, CA. October 7-9, 2005. |
“‘Struggle in That Perilous Current of Water’: Chen Hengzhe’s Autobiography of A Chinese Young Girl.” The International Women’s Congress and Woman’s World 2005. Seoul, Korea. June 19-24, 2005. |
“Her Story and His Story: Yang Buwei , Zhao Yuanren and the Tale of Transnational Education.” The International Conference on National Boundaries and Cultural Configuration. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. June 23-25, 2004. |
“Feng Yuanjun’s ‘Sentimental Autobiography.’” The International Conference of Feminism in China Since The Women's Bell. Shanghai, China. June 18, 2004. |
“The Great (Surrogate) Mother of the West: The Genealogy of Masculinity in Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America.” Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ). Tokyo, Japan. June 22, 2003. |
| Selected Awards, Fellowships, and Honors |
Invited Lecture: "Addicted to Beauty." University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, Ann Arbor, December 2, 2008. |
Invited lecture: “Guojia : The Chinese Family and Nation in A Century of Revolution and (Ex)Change.” National Consortium for the Education of Asia. March 27, 2004. |
| Invited lecture: “Feng Yuanjun’s ‘Sentimental Autobiography’ and the Modernization of Chinese Literature.” Presented at the meeting of the Japanese Society of Chinese Studies, Western Branch, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. June 20, 2003. |
| ACM Faculty Career Development Grant. 2007. |
| Japan Studies Individual Faculty Travel Grant. June 2007. |
| Mellon Foundation Faculty Development Summer Stipend. Summer 2003. |
Freeman Travel Grant to Japan. June 18-23, 2003. |
| Associated Researcher. Wu Yi-fang Research Center, Nanjing, China. 2007- |
| Research Fellow in Residence. Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China, 2007-2008. |
| Interdisciplinary Studies Fellow. Grinnell College. Spring 2006-Spring 2007. |
“Michigan Teaching Fellow.” University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. May 2000 |
| Institute for the Humanities Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan. 1999-2000. |
| Selected Service |
Faculty Organization Committee. 2008- |
| Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2008- |
| Chair, Department of Chinese and Japanese (2003-04, 2005-2007) |
| Rosenfield Symposium in Public Affairs |
| Chair, Committee of Cultural Films (2003-04, 2005-2006) |
| Committee of the East Asian Studies Concentration |
