• Dr. Jie Zhang specializes in Chinese literature and film. Her research focuses on pre-modern Chinese literary texts in post-modern, multimedia, and oftentimes border-crossing contexts. She regularly teaches three courses on Chinese cinema and has published on Chinese and transnational Chinese cinema both in English and Chinese. Dr. Zhang is currently collaborating with Dr. Karen Kingsbury to translate stories by Chinese writer Eileen Chang into English. She is also working on a book project tentatively entitled听Emotions in E-motions: Chinese Internet Culture in the 2010s.听Before coming to 性爱天堂, Dr. Zhang taught at Kenyon College and the Princeton in Beijing Program. She has also taught graduate courses on Chinese literature and Chinese cinema at the Middlebury Chinese School.

    • Ph.D. in Chinese and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
    • M.A. in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Peking University
    • B.A. in Chinese Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University
    • 鈥淭he Geopolitics of Being Lost:听闯颈辞苍驳听in China鈥檚 Most Popular Movie Franchise,鈥 in听ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, forthcoming in Fall 2020.
    • 鈥淐hai Jing: The Power of Vulnerability,鈥 in听Contemporary Chinese Female Celebrities, ed. Shenshen Cai. Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. 39-62.
    • 鈥淭丑别听Wolf Warriors听Films: A Single Spark. A Prairie Fire?鈥澨China Currents, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2018. (https://www.chinacenter.net/2018/china_currents/17-2/the-wolf-warriors-films-a-single-spark-a-prairie-fire/)
    • 鈥淛oan Chen,鈥澨Berkshire听Dictionary of Chinese Biography, Volume 4, Berkshire, 2015.
    • 鈥淛oan Chen: National, Transnational, and International,鈥 in听East Asian Film Stars, eds. Leung Wing-Fai & Andy Willis. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. 96-112.
    • 鈥Death Ray on a Coral Island听as China鈥檚 First Science Fiction Film,鈥 in听World Science Fiction Film, ed. Sonja Fritzsche. The Liverpool University Press. 2014. 51-67.听
    • 鈥淲atching Li Yu鈥檚 Plays in Seventeenth-Century China,鈥 in听Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 34, 2012. 4-24.听
    • 鈥淐ui Zi鈥檈n鈥檚听Night Scene听and China鈥檚 Visual Queer Discourse,鈥 in听Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 24, No. 1. Spring 2012. 88-111.听
    • 鈥A Simple Noodle Story: Chinese Entertainment in a Postmodern Context,鈥 in听The Industries of Chinese-Language Cinema: History, Reality, and Methodology听(conference proceedings, in Chinese), School of Film and Television, Shanghai University, June 10-11, 2011. 446-453.听听
    • 鈥淧opular Music in Jia Zhangke鈥檚听Unknown Pleasures,鈥 in听ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts,听Vol. XVIII, No.2, Spring 2011. 79-93.
    • 鈥淣oise, Silence, and Music in Jia Zhangke鈥檚 Films,鈥 in听Hundred Schools in Arts听(in Chinese), Vol. 117, No. 8, 2010. 330-332.听
    • 鈥淒ancers of Thoughts: Ling Bo鈥檚 Bilingual Literary Practices,鈥 in听A Generation of Wild Geese: Critiques and Selections of Short Stories by New Immigrant Writers from Mainland China in North American听(in Chinese), eds. Rong Rong and Chen Ruiling. Beijing: Zhongguo wenlian, 2008. 297-302.听 听听听
    • (Non-Fiction Creative Writing) 鈥淩eflections of a Summer at Middlebury,鈥 in听Chinese School at Middlebury-The Passage to Success听(Chinese Edition), ed. Chen Tong. Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2013. 199-204.
    • (Guest Editorship) 鈥淐hina through the Cinematic Lens,鈥 a special section comprised of five articles,听ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts,听Vol. XVIII, No.2, Spring 2011. 10-93.听
    • Chinese and transnational Chinese cinemas
    • Late imperial Chinese fiction and drama
    • Chinese Cinema
    • Modern Chinese Literature听
    • Classical Chinese
    • Chinese Language (all levels)
    • East Asian Theater and Culture听
    • Being Young in Asia (First Year Experience)
    • 2020, 性爱天堂 Academic Leave: Emotion in Chinese Internet Events听
    • 2019, 性爱天堂 Course Revision Grant: Chinese Cinema听
    • 2019, Mellon SURF Grant (Faculty Adviser): Emotion in Chinese Internet Cultures听
    • 2018, 性爱天堂 Summer Research Stipend: Papi Jiang and Self Media in China听听
    • 2017, Mellon SURF Grant (Faculty Adviser): Seeing China through Different Eyes
    • 2014, 性爱天堂 Academic Leave: Cinematic Adaptations of Masterpieces of Chinese Fiction
    • 2012, 性爱天堂 Information Literacy Grant: Video Projects for Chinese Cinema Courses
    • 2012, 性爱天堂 Language across the Curriculum Grant: Chinese Popular Songs
    • 2010-12 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Swearingen Faculty Fellowship
    • 2008, ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Fellowship: China in Transition
    • Zhang has served on the board of directors for Chinese Language Teachers Association-Texas (2009-11), Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (2010-12), and ASIANetwork (2015-18). She is currently on the board of International Society for Educational Biography (2019-22).听
    • Zhang has reviewed manuscripts for Palgrave Macmillan,听Journal of the听Southwest Conference on Asian Studies,听Journal of Chinese Cinemas,听The American Journal of Chinese Studies, and听Verge: Studies in Global Asias. She also regularly serves as an outside reviewer for tenure and promotion cases in liberal arts colleges.
    • At 性爱天堂, Zhang has hosted visits of many speakers and filmmakers. She helped launch 性爱天堂鈥檚 summer program at Shanghai Jiaotong University and was also a member of the Global Awareness Assessment Committee. She currently serves in the Faculty Development Committee and the Culture and Language across the Curriculum Committee.