John Zou
Personal Information
DOB 1965.7.8
Mailbox zouyu@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Research Fields
Comparative Theater, Sinology
Education
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 2000
MA U. of Maryland, Baltimore, Modern Languages, 1991
BA Fudan U, English, 1986
Experience
2020- Professor, Institute of Humanities, Shanghai Tech
2016-2020 Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences,Chongqing U
On-Going Project
Liu Yuejin: The Literary Geography and Geographic Concentrations of the Literati in the Qin and Han Dynasties, Beijing: The Chinese Social Sciences Press, 2012. (Chinese to English)
Selected Publications
1. “The Marital Comedy: As You Like It and the Discourse of Hope,” Foreign Literature Review，2022, vol 3，pp. 5-53.
2. “The Trope of Warhorse: Richard III, the Person of State and Politico-Cultural Transformation on the Shakespearean Stage,” Foreign Literature Review, 202, vol 1, pp. 60-79.
3. “Crisis in Value and Remaking of the Subject: Masculine Mimesis in The Most Important Event of One’s Life,” The Literary Review, 2019, vol 3, pp. 101-109.
4. “The Textual Hole in Madman’s Diary: On the Speaking Self and Psychological Subjectivity in Lu Xun,”Studies in Modern Chinese Literature, 2016, vol 3., pp. 7-15.
Conference Papers
1. “The Marital Comedy,” Literature and Communal Life: The 18th Research Conference of the Foreign Literature Review, Shaanxi Normal University, Sept. 26, 2021.
2. “The Moral Persuasion of the Modern: Hu Shi and His The Most Important Event of Life,” Symposium on Recent and Remote Past, East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, Tokyo University, Sept. 2, 2019.
3. “Disappeared Interior: Tian Han and His Guan Hanqing,” Australian National University, Jan. 7, 2019.
4. “Ownership without Means: Cao Zhi’s Metaphors of Political Togetherness,” The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference, New York University, Feb. 16-18, 2018.
Recent Classes
（Shanghai Tech）
First Year College English
Survey in English-Language Literature
As You Like It
The Tempest
（Chongqing U.）
Introduction to English-Language Literature
Shakespeare
How to Read Lacan
Services
Paper Reviews
Foreign Literature Review，2019，2020，2022
Recent Administrative Services
2020- Point person to revamp the College English program at Shanghai Tech
2020- Member of the Hiring committee, Institute of Humanities, Shanghai Tech
2020- Member of the Teaching Committee, Institute of Humanities, Shanghai Tech