Chunjie Zhang, Ph.D. - Montclair State University

Chunjie Zhang, Ph.D. - Montclair State University

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Chunjie Zhang, Ph.D.
Montclair State University
Department of Modern Languages and Literature
Dickson Hall 131
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
zhangc@mail.montclair.edu
Phone: (973) 655-4283
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Fall 2011Columbia University, New York, NY
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, 2010-2011
Program of International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Duke University, Durham, NC
M.A. Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany (Final Grade: sehr gut)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany
B.A.
Peking University, Beijing, China
ACADEMIC HONORS
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
National Endowment in the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowship, June-August 2011
Shanghai and Berlin: Cultures of Urban Modernism in Interwar China and Germany
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Harper Schmidt Fellowship (Collegiate Assistant Professor), Society of Fellows, 2011-2015
(declined)
Columbia University, New York, NY
INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, 2010-2011
Duke University, Durham, NC
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Fellowship for Dissertation Completion and Undergraduate Instruction,
2009-2010
Campus Activity Grant for Graduate Student Workshop “Visions of the World,” The Kenan Institute
for Ethics, April 2009
Conference Travel Fellowship, Graduate School, October 2009
Conference Travel Fellowship, Graduate School, March 2009
Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School, May-August 2008
Conference Travel Fellowship, Graduate School, August 2008
Conference Travel Fellowship, Graduate School, April 2008
Research Fellowship, Exchange Program between Duke University and the Free University, Berlin,
Germany, 2005-2006
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Summer Research & Training Fellowship, Duke University Center for International Studies, JuneAugust 2005
Graduate Studies and Teaching Fellowship, Graduate School, 2004-2009
IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften), Vienna, Austria
Conference Travel Grant, Summer 2008
Erasmus-Socrates Exchange Scholar
Erasmus-Socrates Exchange Scholarship, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, 2003
Peking University, Beijing, China
May 4th-Prize for Excellence in German, 1997-1998
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Language Courses
First-Year Chinese, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
Second Year Chinese, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
Content Courses
Introduction to Chinese Civilization, Fall 2011
Introduction to Asian Civilizations, Spring 2012
Columbia University, New York, NY
Transnational Melodrama (Undergraduate Seminar, accepted in Columbia’s Global Core
Curriculum), Spring 2011
Duke University, Durham, NC
Language Courses and Workshop
First-Year German 1, Fall 2006
First-Year German 2, Spring 2007
Intermediate German 65, Fall 2007
Intermediate German 66, Spring 2008
Advanced German 117, Fall 2008
First-Year German 1, Spring 2009
DAAD Workshop on the Techniques of Teaching German, University of California at Berkeley,
October 2006
Content Course
Three lectures in “Fairy Tales: From Grimm to Disney” (undergraduate lecture course, taught in
English), Spring 2010, sponsored by Bass Fellowship
6 Workshops on Critically Writing on Literature, Spring 2010, sponsored by Bass Fellowship
Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
First-Year Chinese 1, Summer 2004
PUBLICATIONS
Entry in Chinese on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in Lu Xun’s Foreign-Language Book Collections,
Lu Xun Research Monthly, forthcoming
“August von Kotzebue’s Indianer in England : Indophilia, Femininity, and Cultural Symbiosis,”
(forthcoming)
“Teaching Melodrama, Making Global Connections,” Columbia Class Notes 1 (2011), forthcoming
“From Sinophilia to Sinophobia: China, History, and Recognition,” Colloquia Germanica 2 (2008):
97-110.
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“Geschichtsphilosophie zwischen Eurozentrismus und Kritik der kolonialen Praxis: Johann Gottfried
Herders Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit,” Herder und seine
Wirkung, ed. Michael Maurer (Heidelberg: Synchron, 2010, in press).
“Social Disintegration and Chinese Culture: The Reception of China in Die Blendung,” The Worlds
of Elias Canetti, eds. William Donahue and Julian Preece (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2007), 127-50.
“Das Exotische als Scheinwelt. Die China-Rezeption in Die Blendung von Elias Canetti,”
Literaturstraße. Chinesisch-deutsches Jahrbuch für Sprache, Literatur und Kultur 5 (2004):
23-42.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Orientalism and Female Noble Savage in August von Kotzebue’s East Indians (1789),” Annual
Conference of German Studies Association, Louisville, Kentucky, September 2011
“Melodramatic Realism and Cosmopolitan Satire: Anna Seghers’s The Wayfarers and Qian
Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged,” NEH Summer Seminar, Stanford University, August 2011
“Popularization of the South Seas in German Discourse Around 1800,” Third European Congress on
World and Global History, London School of Economics & Political Science, Great Britain,
April 2011
“August von Kotzebue’s Transnational Melodrama: Sentimentalism, Sexuality, and Refusal of
Tragedy in Brother Moritz (1795),” Columbia University, March 2011
“Pacific Cannibalism and Cultural Identity in Georg Forster’s Reise um die Welt (1778),” Annual
Conference of the German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 2010
“Georg Forster and Postcolonial Criticism: Natural History, Sentimentalism, and the Intrusion of the
South Sea,” Dartmouth College, January 2010
“Herder’s China Reception: Intra-European Obsessions or Response to Intercultural Challenges,”
Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 2009
“From Sinophilia to Sinophobia: the Image of China, the Universal, and the Recognition From Afar,”
Workshop “Visions of the World: History, Form, and Function of Universalism,” Duke
University, April 2009
“August von Kotzebue’s Virgin of the Sun: Colonial Desire or the Challenges of Cultural
Differences,” Annual Conference of American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard
University, March 2009
“August von Kotzebue and Postcolonial Criticism: Sexuality, Sentimentalism and the Refusal of
Tragedy,” UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University Departments of German Work in Progress
Series, Durham, NC, November 2008
“Johann Gottfried Herders Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit:
Geschichtsphilosophie zwischen Eurozentrismus und Kritik an kolonialer Praxis,” Biennial
Conference of the International Herder Society, Jena, Germany, August 2008
“Herder’s Theory of Historical Empathy,” International Graduate Student Conference Empathy,
Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, Austria, July 2008
“Between the Critique of Colonial Practice and Eurocentrism: Herder’s Philosophy of History in
Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit,” 61st Annual Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2008
“Cultural Critique or Eurocentrism: Perception of Foreignness in Johann Gottfried Herder’s
Universal Historicism,” Topography of Otherness: 33rd Annual Conference of the Southern
Comparative Literature Association, Raleigh, NC, October 2007
“Sozialer Zerfall und das Chinesische. Über die China-Rezeption in Canettis Die Blendung,” The
Worlds of Elias Canetti, Centenary Conference, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, July
2005
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TRANSLATIONS
Hans Gärcke, “Collage, die Suche nach verlorener Verbindung,” translated as “寻找失去的联系”
(Collage, Searching for Lost Connections), from German into Chinese, 先锋 (Avant-Garde) 3
(1999): 10-13.
Stefan Wolf, Die Drachenhöhle, translated as “龙洞的珍宝” (The Dragon’s Den), from German into
Chinese, Beijing Children’s Press, 2000.
LANGUAGES
Chinese, native language
German, near-native fluency in reading, writing, and speaking
English, near-native fluency in reading, writing, and speaking
French, intermediate level in reading, writing and speaking