Biwu Shang - Curriculum Vitae#

1. Education

• Ph.D in English, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2010
  
• M.A in English, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2007
  
• B.A in English, Anhui Normal University, 2001

2. Employment

• Changjiang Youth Scholar and Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016-
  
• Youth Talent, Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 2018-2021
  
• Fellow of the National Humanities Center, USA, 2015-2016
  
• Distinguished Fellow, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2014-2016
  
• Visiting Scholar, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, January-March, 2013
  
• Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang Gong Shang University, 2010-2014
  
• Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2008-2009
  
• Assistant Professor of English, Anhui University of Technology, 2001-2004

3. Professional Activities and Service

• Editor-in-Chief, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, 2004-
  
• Advisor, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 2017-
  
• Advisor, Foreign Literature Studies, 2018-
  
• Advisor, Forum for World Literature Studies. 2013-
  
• Advisor, arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture, 2014-
  
• Advisory Editorial Board Member, RAVEN: Research on Alternative Varieties of Explorations in Narrative, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
  
• Executive, China’s National Society for Teaching Foreign Literature, 2014-
  
• Executive, China’s National Society for Cognitive Poetics, 2013-
  
• Executive, China’s National Society for the Study of Narrative, 2013-
  
• Vice-Secretary, International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism, 2012-

4. Edited Journals

• Editor-in-Chief, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, 2014-
  
• Rediscovering Chinese Narrative Tradition (Special Issue), Neohelicon 45.1(June 2018)
  
• Globalizing Literary History and World Literature: In Memory of John Neubauer(1933-2015) (Special Issue), Forum for World Literature Studies 7.3 (September 2015).
  
• Ethical Literary Criticism: International Perspectives (Special Issue). Forum for World Literature Studies 7.1 (March 2015).
  
• Ethics and Fiction in the Twenty-First Century (Special Issue). CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 17.5 (December 2015).
  
• Ethical Literary Criticism: East and West (Special Issue). arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture 50.1 (June 2015).
  
• Postclassical Narratology: Western Approaches (Special Issue). Foreign Literature Studies 32. 4 (August 2010).

5. Funds, Awards and Fellowships

• Youth Talent, Chinese Central Government, 2018-2021
  
• Changjiang (Yangzi River) Distinguished Scholar, Ministry of Education of China, 2016-2019
  
• Fellowship, National Humanities Center, USA, 2015-2016
  
• Second Prize for the Best Research Work in Humanities and Social Sciences, Shanghai Municipal Government, China, 2016
  
• Third Prize for the Best Research Work in Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education of China, 2015
  
• First Prize for the Best Research Work in Humanities and Social Sciences, Shanghai Municipal Government, China, 2014
  
• Principle Investigator, Key Research Project, National Social Sciences Foundation of China, 2017-2022
  
• Principle Investigator, Key Research Project, National Social Sciences Foundation of China, 2014-2017
  
• "151" Talent, Zhejiang Province, China, 2013-2018
  
• Leading Scholar, Zhejiang Province, China, 2013-2018
  
• Zhijiang Youth Scholar, Zhejiang Province, China, 2013-2018
  
• Principle Investigator, Key Research Project, National Social Sciences Foundation of China, 2011-2013
  
• Scholarship, China Scholarship Council, 2008-2009

6. Books

• Unnatural Narrative across Borders: Transnational Perspectives, London and New York: Routledge, 2018, forthcoming.
  
• What Is Narratology? Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2018, forthcoming.
  
• Contemporary Western Narratology: Postclassical Perspectives. Beijing: People’s Literature Press, 2013.
  
• In Pursuit of Narrative Dynamics: A Study of James Phelan’s Rhetorical Theory of Narrative. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
  

7. Selected Journal Articles since 2010

Delving into a World of Non-Human Experience: Unnatural Narrative and Ecological Critique of Chen Yingson’s The Last Dance of a Leopard.” Comparative Literature Studies, 55.4 (2018), forthcoming

“Unnatural Narratology and Zhiguai Tales of the Six Dynasties in China,” Neohelicon 45.1 (forthcoming, 2018)

“Core Concepts and Basic Theories of Narrative: A Conversation with Gerald Prince.” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 2.1 (2018), forthcoming.

“Ethical Literary Criticism and Ian McEwan’s Nutshell”, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 59.2 (2018): 142-153.

“The Maze of Shanghai Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 19.3 (September, 2017): 1-10.
“Prisoners of Ethical Predicament: The Ethical Metaphors of Ian McEwan’s Nutshell,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 1.1 (2017): 27-44.

“Delving into Impossible Storyworlds: The Unnaturalness of Hassan Blasim’s Short Narrative Fiction,” arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture, 52.1 (2017):183-200.
“Toward a Comparative Narratology: A Chinese Perspective,” Comparative Literature Studies, 54.1 (2017): 52-69.

“Narrative as Rhetoric: Judgments, Progression, and Narrativity in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Primerjalna Književnost, 39.2 (2016). 129-144.
“Unnatural Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Time Travel Fiction: Patterns, Values, and Interpretive Options,” Neohelicon, 43.1 (June 2016): 7-25.

“Ethical Dilemma and Ethical Epiphany in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 17.5 (2015):1-8.
“Introduction to Fiction and Ethics in the Twenty-first Century,” (co-author with Nie Zhenzhao) CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 17.5 (2015):1-5.
“Toward a Second Phase of Postclassical Narratology,” Style, 49.3 (2015):363-377.

“Fruitful Collaborations: Ethical Literary Criticism in Chinese Academe” (co-authored with William Baker), TLS: Times Literary Supplement, 31 July (2015): 14-15.
“The Meaning and Protection of the Child’s Welfare: Ethical Identities and Ethical Choices in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act,” Foreign Literature Studies, 37. 3 (2015):53-63.
“Memory/Postmemory, Ethics and Ideology: Toward a Historiographic Narratology in Film,” Primerjalna Književnost, 38.1 (2015): 61-82.

“Ethical Literary Criticism: East and West” (co-authored with Nie Zhenzhao), arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture 50. 1 (2015):4-8.

“The Unbearable Lightness of Growth: Reading Ethical Consciousness and Ethical Selection in Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden,” arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture 50.1 (2015): 102-117.

“Reception and Variation of Classical Narratology in China,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.6 (2014):1-9.

“Cognitive Literary Science: Developments and Perspectives,” Style 48.3 (2014):411-424.

“Postmodernist Poetics and Narratology: A Review Article about McHale’s Scholarship,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.3 (2014):1-7.

“The Rise of a Critical Theory: Reading Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism.” Foreign Literature Studies 36. 5 (2014):26-36.
“Ethical Criticism and Literary Studies,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15. 6 (2013):1-7.
“ ‘The Rise of a Critic’: On Marjorie Perloff’s Way of Doing Poetics,” Foreign Literature Studies 35. 6 (2013): 142-145.

“The Activation of Multileveled Responses: James Phelan’s Rhetorical Theory of Narrative Judgments,” Semiotica 189. 1/4 (2012): 197-213.

“Ethical Choice, Ethical Identity and Ethical Consciousness: An Interpretation of A Mercy from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism,” Foreign Literature Studies 33.6 (2011): 14-23.

“Plurality and Complementarity of Postclassical Narratologies,” Journal of Cambridge Studies 6. 2 (2011): 1-14.
“A Maternal Love Misread: Narrative Judgments in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,” Foreign Literature Studies 32.4 (2010): 60-69.
“Postclassical Narratology: Western Approaches” (co-authored with James Phelan), Foreign Literature Studies 32.4 (2010): 10-12.

8. Invited Talks in the last Five Years:

• “Unnatural Emotions in Contemporary Narrative Fiction”, invited talk at Tel Aviv University, Israel, June 17-25, 2017
  
• “The First Sino-Hungary Bilateral Conference on Narratology” (Budapest, Hungary, Jan.25-31), Key-note speech “Fictionality and Cognitive Poetics.
  
• “Second International Forum for Ethical Literary Criticism and World Literature Studies”(Korea University, June 9-12, 2017), key-note speech: “thical Literary Criticism and Ian McEwan’s Nutshell”
  
• The 5th Conference of the ENN (Prague，September 13 to 15, 2017), panel chair, a paper presentation “Unnatural narratology and zhiguai tales of the six dynasties in China”
  
• “International Symposium on Derrida and China: Toward a Construction of the Global Humanities”(Shanghai Jiao Tong University, July 14-17,2017), key-note speech “Derrida, Cosmopolitanism, and the Rise of Contemporary British Cosmopolitan Novel”
  
• “The 7th Convention of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism：Ethical Literary Criticism and Interdisciplinary Studies”(Queen Mary University of London, UK, August 8-10, 2017)，key-note speech: “Ethical Literary Criticism and Ian McEwan’s Nutshell”
  
• The 6thInternational Symposium on Ethical Literary Criticism: Ethical Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature, and World Literature （Tartu University, Estonia, Oct1-7, 2016），key-note speech: “Unnatural Narrative in Traditional Chinese Ghost Tales and Its Ethical Interpretive Option”
  
• “Ethical Naturalization of the Unnatural: Approaching Contemporary Chinese Time Travel Fiction,” a paper presented at 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA, 2016, Vienna July 21-27, 2016)
  
• “Towards a Comparative Narratology”, a paper presented at International Conference on Narrative (Amsterdam, June 16-18, 2016)
  
• “Unnatural Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Time Travel Fiction,” a talk given at Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, March 14, 2016
  
• “Ethics in Contest: Narrative Progression and Ethical Epiphany in Ian McEwan's The Children Act,” a talk given at Project Narrative, Ohio State University, January 27, 2016
  
• “The 2015 ELLAK International Conference”, (December 10-12, 2015, Busan, Korea), key-note speech: “The Maze of Shanghai Memory: Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans
  
• “The Fifth International Symposium on Ethical Literary Criticism”(Seoul and Busan, Korea，2015.10.01-07), key-note speech: Ethical Dilemma and Ethical Epiphany in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act.
  
• “The Fourth International Symposium on Ethical Literary Criticism”（Shanghai，2014.12.19-21），key-note speech: “The Unbearable Lightness of Growth: Ethical Consciousness and Ethical Identity in Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden”.
  
• “Biodiversity and China’s Modernization: Strange Bedfellows?” key note speech ISLE Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 27, 2014.
  
• “Unnatural Narratology: Core Issues and Critical Debates”, invited talk at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 26, 2014.
  
• “Modern and Postmodern Arts: China and the World”(Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 27-29 June 2014), key note speech: *“Ethical Naturalization of Unnatural Narratives: Reading Contemporary Chinese Time-Travel Fictions”