Yang Zhengrun

Professor of World Literature, life-writing scholar, literature and culture critic

Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies

Email: zryang3004@163.com

Main Experiences

2013-      Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies

2011-2017  Distinguished Professor and Director of Center for Life Writing at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Head of the Major Program “Compilation and Research of Overseas Life Writings on Modern Chinese People”

1999-2000  Guest Professor in Department of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis

1987-1988   Visiting scholar in Department of English at the University of Kansas

1982-2009  Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor successively in Department of Chinese at Nanjing University

1979-1981   MA in World Literature from Nanjing University

1963-1968   An undergraduate in Department of Chinese at Nanjing Normal College

Academic Titles:

2007-2015 Vice President of China Biographical Literature Society

2011-2014 Chairman of the Specialized Committee for Foreign Literature of Chinese Higher Education Association

1995-2001 Vice President and Secretary of the Specialized Committee for Foreign Literature of Chinese Higher Education Association

Selected Works:

The Rock and The Rainbow: Selected Essays on Life Writing by Zhengrun Yang (Ed. Yuan Qi). Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2016.

A Dictionary for Appreciation of Foreign Biography. (Ed.) Shanghai: Shanghai Dictionary Press, 2009.

Self-Portraits: Studies on China’s Modern Autobiography and Nationality. (Ed.) Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press, 2009.

A Modern Poetics of Biography. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2009.

Intellectuals by Paul Johnson. (trans.) Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Press, 1999.

Shelley: A Biography. Taipei: Yeqiang Press, 1999.

A Concise History of Biographical Literature. Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Press, 1994.

Footprints of Humanity. Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Press, 1992.

“On Shakespeare’s Biography: The Subversion of Traditional Discourse,” Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies 1 (2018): 19-33. 

“An Interpretation of ‘Dreams’ in Shakespeare’s Dramas,” Foreign Literature Studies, 6 (2006): 55-62.

“Shakespeare in Face of the Challenge from the Earl of Oxford,” Wenhui Reader’s Weekly, Apr. 19, 2002: 2.

“Subversion and Inhibition of Literature: the Literary Functions and Ideology of New Historicism,” Foreign Literature Review, 3(1994): 20-29.

“The Location and ‘Synchronization’ of Subjects: On the Theoretical Basis of New Historicism,” Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art. 1 (1994): 112-122.

Awards:

2015 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biography Study in China

2013 Award for Excellent in News and Publishing by Jiangsu Province, China

1998 Award for Excellent Works in Philosophy and Social Sciences by Ministry of Education, China

1998 Special Allowance Expert by State Council, China

1997 Award for Excellent Works in Philosophy and Social Sciences by Jiangsu Province, China