!!Biwu Shang - Curriculum Vitae
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__1. Education__
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*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
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__2. Employment__
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*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
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__3. Professional Activities and Service__
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*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-
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__4. Edited Journals__
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*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).
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__5. Funds, Awards and Fellowships__
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*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
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__6. Books__
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*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__
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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.
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__8. Invited Talks in the last Five Years:__
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*“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”\\ \\