Kang Liu#
| Membership Number: | 3987 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AMES/faculty/liukang/files/CV.pdf |
Present and Previous Positions
- April 2008 - present Zhiyuan Chair Professor, Dean, the Institute of Arts and Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- January - May 2008 Visiting Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- August 2003 - present Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Director, Duke Program of Research on China (PRC), Duke University
- Aug. 1991 - 2003 Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor), Department of Comparative Literature, and Chair, East Asian Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University
- May 1999 - present Guest (Adjunct) Professor and Senior Research Fellow of Humanities and Social Sciences, and International Coordinator, Center for International Communication Studies, Tsinghua University, China
- June - August, 1998 Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands, and Visiting Professor, School of Asian Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
- January - May 1998 Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of Radio and Television, the College of Journalism and Mass Communication, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Fields of Scholarship
- Critical theory
- China studies
- International politics
- Visual and media narratives
- Global culture and media
- Public opinion research
- Comparative literature
- Aesthetics
- Media and communication studies
- Marxism
