Ning Wang#
| Membership Number: | 3585 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1989, 08-1991, 07 Lecturer of English and Comparative Literature, Peking University
- 1990. 10-1991, 09 NWO Fellow, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 1991, 08-1992, 07 Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Peking University
- 1992, 08-1997-02 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Peking University
- 1997, 03-2000,12 Professor of Comparative Literature, Beijing Language and Culture University
- 2001, 01- Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Tsinghua University
- 2006-2008 Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, the Capital Normal University in Beijing
- 2009, 03- Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2011, 01-2013, 02 Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Tsinghua University
- 2013, 03 Changjiang Distinguished Professor of English, Tsinghua University
Fields of Scholarship
- Cosmopolitanism and world literature
- Translation studies
- Northrop Frye and the study of myths
- cultural studies
- Contemporary Western literary theory
- Henrik Ibsen and China
- Chinese-Western comparative literature
- Modernism and postmodernism
- Literature and globalization
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Changjiang scholars award, Chinese Ministry of Eduction
- 2012 Distinguished fellow, the National Humanities Center, USA
- 2011 Guest professor, Georg-August Universitat Gottingen, Germany
- 2010 Member of Académé de la Latinité (Brazil)
- 2009 Distinguished guest professor of Nanjing University
- 2008 Fellow of the CRASSH, University of Cambridge, Britain
- 2008 Excellent Ph.D dissertation supervisor of Beijing, Beijing Municipal Commission on Education
- 2007 Distinguished visiting fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
- 2006 Scholar of greatest influence in humanities and social sciences in 2005, The Yearbook of Chinese Academia: Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2005 Distinguished visiting professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- 2001 Ford distinguished seminar speaker, Yale University
- 2000 Special award for outstanding contributions, Chinese State Council
- 1998 Guest research fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- 1995 Ibsen fellow, University Oslo, Norway
- 1993 Northrop Frye fellow, University of Toronto, Canada
- 1990 NWO fellow, The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research-University of Utrecht
