Dr. Tang Jiannan 

Education

2011-2008     Ph.D from Beijing Foreign Studies University

2004-2008    M.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University

1996-2000     B.A. from Northwest University, English Language

2013-2014     Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, visiting scholar

2009-2010     University of Nevada, Reno, USA., visiting scholar

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Research Projects
1.    2013-2016    “Cosmopolitanism Grounded in Place in Barbara Kingsolver’s Fiction” sponsored by the Ministry of Education in China.

2.    2013-2016   “Comparison and Contrast of the Works by Barbara Kingsolver and Linda Hogan” sponsored by Beijing Municipal City.

3.    2009-2012 “Place in Ecocriticism,” sponsored by China University of Petroleum.

Teaching

2000-present      School of Foreign Languages, China University of Petroleum

Contact

Email:    tjiannan@hotmail.com

TEL:   010-89733282

Address of Office: No. 18 Fuxue Road, School of Foreign Languages, China University of Petroleum, Changping, Beijing 102249, China

Publications

Books:

1.      Place, Body, and Interconnectedness: The Resurgence of the Real in Barbara Kingsolver’s Five Novels. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Research and Teaching Press, 2013.

Part of Articles

1.      “The Study of Place in Ecocriticism,” Foreign Language and Literature (4, 2012).

2.      “Memory Writing and Identity Construction in Animal Dreams,” Contemporary Foreign Literature (Summer 2012).

3.      “Body, Self, and the Environment: An Interpretation of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals,” Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages (5, 2012).

4.      “The Despairing Habitation in Hello, Mr. Tree,”Film Literature (4, 2012).

5.      “Reconstructing the ‘Body’ in Ecofeminism,”Theory Monthly (3, 2012).

6.      “The Wisdom of the Food Chain: Interpreting the Environmental Consciousness in Prodigal Summer,”Writer Magazine (3, 2012).

7.      “Environmental Justice in Animal Dreams,”English Language and Literature Studies (1,2012).

8.      “Innocence: A Bittersweet Medicine in Slaughterhouse-Five,”English Language and Literature Studies (12,2011).

9.      “The Assertion of Body for a Sense of Place in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams,” Moravian Journal of Literature and Film (12,2011).

10.   “Resolving the Conflict between Politics and Art: On Barbara Kingsolver’s Novel Writing,”Mountain Flowers (11, 2011).

11.   “From Bondage to Bondage: Analysis of Jessica in The Merchant of Venice,”Overseas English (11, 2011).

12.   “The Environmental Consciousness in the Mystery Story ‘The Clone’,”Master (9, 2011).

13.   “A Loss of ‘Sense of Place’: Rereading Wineburg, Ohio,” Foreign Language Researches (3, 2011).

14.   “An Ecofeminist Analysis of The Poisonwood Bible,” Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal (4, 2011).

15.   “The Influence of the Relationship between Self and Society on Women’s Lives: Comparison and Contrast of the Heroines in The Awakening and The Color Purple,”Foreign Literature Researches (1,2011).

16.   “The Utopia of the Harmony between Humanity and Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of ‘A White Heron’,”Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University (3,2010).

Translation

17.   Detective and Suspenseful Stories. China Yuhang Publishing House, 2012. (Co-editor and Translator)