Name：Zhang Qiang Gender：Male

Date of Birth： 8月4日 Academic Title：Professor

Diploma：ph.D Occupation：College Techer

Institute：Central China Normal University

E-mail:zhangqiang00@hotmail.com

Cell Phone:13871549869

Education

1997/09—2001/06 Ph.D, English and American Literature, English Department, Shanghai International Studies University.

1987/09—1994/01 BA & MA, English Language and Literature, English Department, Central China Normal University.

Teaching Experience

Lecturer from 1994 for English majors from fresh apples to senior students, teaching different kinds of compulsory and optional courses (e. g. Comprehensive English, Reading, Listening, History of English Literature, Selected Readings of American Literature, and Movie Appreciation). The result of the Student Evaluation on the Teacher’s Classroom Performance is always desirable.

Associate Professor from 2001 (and Professor from 2012) for English graduates, teaching Western Literary Theories, Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice, English Drama Studies, Fiction and Movie Narratives, English Postmodernist Literature, etc.

Visiting Scholar in 2007 at the University of Brighton, England with a work permit, participating in the teaching of Creative Writing for the first-year and second-year undergraduates.

Tutor from 2001 for more than 300 graduating English majors and minors, supervising their graduation thesis writing (two theses respectively by Lin fan and Yang Tingting have been granted the “Excellent Graduation Thesis by Undergraduates from Universities in Hubei Province”.

Tutor from 2002 for more than 100 English graduates, supervising their graduation thesis writing (Theses by Li Guoyu, Wang Yingying, Song Laigen, and Cui Enhao have been granted the “Excellent Graduation Thesis by Graduates”.

Research Projects:

Chief researcher of “Sherwood Anderson and His Art of Fiction”, a Youth Scholarship Project sponsored by the National Social Science Research Fund of China.

Chief researcher of “A Retrospect on the Countryside from the City: Sherwood Anderson Studies”, an Academic Book Publishing Project sponsored by the Philosophy and Social Science Research Fund of the Education Ministry in China.

Researcher participating in 3 research projects sponsored the philosophy and Social Science Research Fund of the Education Ministry in China.

Representative Academic Achievements:

A Review of Sherwood Anderson Studies. Foreign Literature Studies, Number 1, February, 2003. The paper was reprinted in the 7th Volume of Foreign Literature Studies of the Reprinted Database sponsored by People’s University of China.

Pouring a Lifetime into a Moment: Sherwood Anderson and His Art of Short Fiction. Central China Normal University Press, January, 2005.

Selected Readings of American Literature. Chongqing University Press, April, 2008.

The Cultural Psychology Behind Harlem Renaissance. In a Global Context: Essays of the International Symposium on American Literature, Central China Normal University Press, 2011.

《镜里看中国：从鸦片战争到毛泽东时代的驻华外国记者》,a Chinese version of Through the Looking Glass: China’s Foreign Journalists from Opium War to Mao (written by Paul French), Friendship Publishing House of China, 2011.

《我赢定了：科林·鲍威尔生活和领导的艺术》, a Chinese version of It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership (written by Kolin Powell with Tony Koltz), Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, 2013.