Staff Profile
   
Prof. Ding Ersu

Tel: 2616 7795
Fax: 2461 5270
 Email: ersuding@ln.edu.hk

Tertiary Education

University of Minnesota (Ph.D.)

Suzhou University / Fudan University (MA)

Jiangsu Teachers' College (BA)

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

Associate Professor / Professor of English, Lingnan University

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Peking University

Associate professor / Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Suzhou University

Instructor of English Composition, University of Minnesota

Teaching assistant in English language & literature courses, University of Minnesota

Instructor of English, Suzhou University

 

Areas of Interest

Semiotics

Literature in English

History of Literary Criticism

Selected Publications

Monographs (in Chinese)

  • The Sign-Character of Language, Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2000.  

  • Beyond Ontology - A Study in Marxist Theory of Meaning, Suzhou: Suzhou University Press, 1994.

Book of Translation

  • xiandai beiju (rendition of Raymond Williams’ Modern Tragedy from English into Chinese), Nanjing: yilin Press, 2007.

Articles in English  

  • “The ‘Handles’ and ‘Sides’ of Metaphor” in Semiotica, forthcoming.

  • “Saussure, Peirce, and the Chinese Picto-phonetic Sign” in American Journal of Semiotics, forthcoming.

  • “Quartet of the (Pre-)Modern: Tradition versus Modernity in the Global Context” in Meng, Hua et al (Ed.) Tradition & Modernity: Comparative Perspectives, Peking University Press, 2007, pp. 382-395.

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  • “Re-canonization of English Literature in China” in Araki, Masazumi et al (Ed.) English Studies in Asia, Silverfish Books in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007, pp. 85-99.

  •  “Appropriation of the ‘Other’: Contrasting Notions of China in British Literature” in Neohelicon, XXXII, 2nd Issue, 2005, pp. 313-325.

  •  “Hidden Iconicity – A Peircean Perspective on the Chinese Picto-phonetic Sign” in Semiotica, Vol. 154 ¼, 2005, pp. 273-285.

  • “History as Effects of Power” in arcadia, Band 39, 2004, pp. 312-321.

  •  “Chinese Appropriation of British and American Literature – past and present” in The Rising Generation, Vol. CL. – No. 4, 2004, pp. 201-205.

  •  “Othering the Face and Facing the Other: Textual Strategies in Transnational Cultural Production” in Literary Research / Recherche Litteraire, Vol. 20, No. 39-40, 2003, pp. 164-176.

  • “Narrating the Pre-modern across Borders” in Kadir, Djelal et al (Ed.) Other Modernisms in an Age of Globalization, Universitats Verlag, C. Winter, 2002, pp. 169-181.

  • “Chinalizing the World – Intellectual Expansion through Selective Translation” in Literary Research / Recherche Litteraire, Vol. 18, no. 35, 2001, pp. 44-50.

  •  “Imperfect Paradise: the Image of the US on Chinese TV” in Kamalipour, Yahya R. (Ed.) Images of the US around the World, State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 221-228.

  • “Chinese Ontological Realism” in Bouissac, Paul (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Semiotics, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 116-118.

  • “Global Consciousness and Praxis of Comparative Literature” in Qian, Linsheng et al (Ed.) Culture: Diversite et coexistence dans le dialogue Chine-Occident, Yilin Press, 1998, pp. 186-193.

  • “Philosophical Discourse of Postmodernity in the Chinese Context” in New Literary History, Vol. 28, John Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 21-30.

  • “Mythologizing ‘the Other’” in Tak-wai Wong et al (Ed.) New Perspectives, Department of Comparative Literature of HKU, 1996, pp. 151-163.

  • “The Tale of the Impossible” in Nemoianu, Virgil (Ed.) Multicomparative Theory, Definitions, Relations, Council on National Literatures of USA, 1996 (December Issue), pp. 103-110.

  • “Editorial: Vista from China” in The Semiotic Review of Books, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1996, pp. 1-2.

  • “Reconstruction of Interpretive Rationality” in Tak-wai Wong et al (Ed.) New Perspectives, Department of Comparative Literature of HKU, 1995, pp. 132-154.

Articles in Chinese  

  •  “dui tazhe de nuoyong” (Chinese translation of “Appropriation of the ‘Other”) in China Scholarship, Vol. 6, 3rd Issue, 2007, pp. 244-259.

  • “Epilogue” (to the Chinese translation of Modern Tragedy by Raymond Williams) in xiandai beiju, Yilin Press, 2007, pp. 219-221.

  • “Humanistic Spirit as Symbolic Capital” in Macau Humanities Journal, Macau Comparative Literature Association, Vol. 1, 2006, pp. 49-52.

  •  “The Tale of the Impossible” in Yue Daiyun et al (Ed.) Transmission of Culture and Literary Images, Peking University Press, 1999, pp. 27-33.

  •  “Global Consciousness and Praxis of Comparative Literature” in Qian, Linsheng et al (Ed.) Culture: Diversite et coexistence dans le dialogue Chine-Occident, Nanjing University Press, 1999, pp. 198-205.

  • “Semiotics and Comparative Literature” in Chen, Dun (Ed.) Comparative Literature, Higher Education Press, 1997, pp. 495-517.

  • “A Semiotic Interpretation of Northrop Frye’s ‘Theory of Symbols’” in Wang, Ning (Ed.) Frye Study: China and West, Chinese Social Sciences Publisher, 1996, pp. 140-148.

  • “The Study of Canon-formation from a Cross-cultural Perspective” in Comparative Literature in China, 1996 (3rd Issue), pp. 23-34.

  • “Myth-making and its Socio-Psychological Functions” in Foreign Literatures, 1996 (2nd Issue), pp. 49-52.

  • “The Specter of Kant: Some Thoughts on Habermas’ Aesthetic Theory” in Art Theory and Criticism, 1994 (6th Issue), pp. 121-124.

  • “The Nature and Scope of Semiotics” in Social Science Journal of Suzhou University, Foreign Language and Literature Series (Vol. 4), 1994, pp. 1-6.

  • “Peirce’s Triadic Theory of the Sign” in Academic Journal of Sichuan Foreign Languages Institute, 1994 (3rd Issue), pp. 10-14.

  • “Semiotic Studies: China and the World” in Comparative Literature in China, 1994 (2nd Issue), pp. 13-22.

  • “The Aporias of Deconstruction” in Foreign Literature Review, 1994 (3rd Issue), pp. 40-48.

  • “Text, Canon and Power” in Yue, Daiyun (Ed.) Comparative Literature in the Age of Cultural Pluralism, Hunan Art and Literature Publishing House, 1994, pp.55-60.

  • “Contemporary Literary Studies in the West and Marxist Theory of the Sign” in Social Science Journal of Suzhou University, Foreign Language and Literature Series (Vol. 3), 1993, pp. 1-4.

Membership in Scholarly Organizations

  • Vice President of the Chinese Research Association for Language and Semiotic Studies (1994 – 1997)

  • Editorial Board of The Semiotic Review of Books, University of Toronto (1997 – 2000),

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  • Editorial Board of Comparative Literature in China, Shanghai International Studies University (1998 –     ),

  • Committee for Literary Theory of the International Association of Comparative Literature (1997 – 2005),

  • Executive Bureau of the International Comparative Literature Association (2000 – 2004) and

  • Fellow of International Communicology Institute (2005 –     ).

Honors and Awards

1994    Outstanding Young University Teacher of Jiangsu Province

1995    Outstanding Young University Teacher of Jiangsu Province

2006    Research Exellence Award, Lingnan University