Education
Ph.D., East China Normal University (2009)
Interests
Medieval English women writers, Geoffrey Chaucer, animal studies, Anglo-Scandinavia studies, visual and auditory narrative, contemporary Anglo-American women writers
Bio
I ama scholar of medieval English literature.I have degrees from Northwest University and East China Normal University and taught at Xianyang Normal University between 1996 and 2010 before coming to Shaanxi Normal University in 2010. I am a professor and Ph.D supervisor in English Department, School of International Studies, Shaanxi Normal University. Iwas a guest professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen (2018) and academic visitor in the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford (2012-2013) and in the Department of English, Harvard University(2019-2020).
Contact
E-mail:zhangyt@snnu.edu.cn
Office:
Room 6117, No.6 Building, Yanta Campus
Office hours by appointment
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Recent Publications
Books
Yating Zhang,Animal Narrative in Medieval English Literature. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2018.
Yating Zhang,Motherhood Represented in Literature of Medieval England. Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2014.(Itwon the prize for monographs of“Achievement Award for Social Sciences and Humanities Research in Institution of High Learning in Shaanxi Province”, 2017 )
Editions
Yating ZhangandWen Wang, eds.,The Selected Readings of Post-war English Women Writers.Xi’an: Xi’an World Book Publishing Company, 2012.
Bingtun Wang, Dinghua Tan, Yating Zhang and Xiaoge Yang, eds.,Coursebook for PETS. Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 2004.
Articles or Book Chapters
Yating Zhang,“Touching the World: Visual Landscape and Soundscape inSir Orfeo.”Foreign Literature Studies6 (2019):92-101.
Yating Zhang,“Interpreting the Sacred: Narrative Discourse in the Autobiographies of Medieval English Women Writers.”Journal of European Classical and Medieval Literature1 (2019): 23-30.
Yating Zhang,“Danish Narrative in Medieval English Literature.”Foreign Literature Review1(2017):181-93.
Yating Zhang,“Animal Narrative and Imagination of the Far East in Medieval England.”Foreign Literature Studies3 (2016):73-82.
Yating Zhang,“Research on the Teaching of English and American Literatures in China.”Theory and Practice of Education24 (2015):53-55.
Yating Zhang,“A Survey of English Majors' Study of English and American Literatures.”Education Teaching Forum29 (2015):76-78.
Yating Zhang,“Love, Fame and Nature: Eagles in Chaucer’s Poems.”Foreign Literatures4 (2014) :66-73.
Yating Zhang,“Representation of Motherhood in Arthurian Narrative Tradition in Medieval England.”Foreign Literature Studies5 (2014):102-9.
Yating Zhang,“The ‘Unbecoming’ Mothers inThe Canterbury Tales.”Foreign Literatures2 (2013):127-33 (Itwon the prize for articles of“Achievement Award for Social Sciences and Humanities Research in Institution of High Learning in Shaanxi Province”, 2015).
Yating Zhang,“Motherhood and Multi-culture Represented inLais of Marie de France.”English and American Literary Studies1 (2013):130-53.
Yating Zhang,“White Bones and Wind: Memory and Reconstruction of Native American History inWinter in the Blood.”English and American Literary Studies1 (2012):287-98.
Yating Zhang,“Between History and Imagination: A Study on the Novels of Beryl Bainbridge.”World Literature Recent Development2 (2011): 15-16.
Yating Zhang,“Being Disinterestedness: A Utopia of Literary Criticism,” inTrans-cultural Communication. Ed. Wen Wang and Bing Tian. Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House.163-70.
Yating Zhang,“In Search of Mother: Reconstruction of Motherhood inThe Showings of Julian of Norwich,” inTrans-cultural Communication. Ed. Wen Wang and Bing Tian. Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2010. 73-82.
Yating Zhang,“A Study on Textual Narrative and Affective Piety of Medieval English Women Writers .”Social Scientist12 (2010):22-25.
Yating Zhang,“Monica Ali: A New Star in English Literary World.”World Literature Recent Development2 (2010): 15-17.
Yating Zhangand Rui Wang,“Out of Ignorance: Medieval English Women Writers and Their Reception.”World Literature Recent Development2 (2009): 45-47.
Yating Zhang,“Gender, Space and Body Politics—An Interpretation of Harold Pinter’sThe Homecomingfrom the Perspective of Feminist Geography.”Sichuan Drama2 (2008): 43-45.
Yating Zhang,“The Wind of Wessex: Hardy in China.”Journal of Niaoning Normal University6 (2007): 86-89.
Yating Zhang,“Hardy’s Wessex World.”The Cultural Review6 (2007): 16-18.
Yating Zhang,“A Dialogue with Jesus Christ: Writing Politics of Medieval English Women Writers.”Journal of Taishan University2 (2007):25-28.
Yating Zhang,“Thomas Hardy: An Accomplice of Patriarchal Mythology.”Journal of Ningxia University2 (2007):157-61.
Book Reviews
Yating Zhang,“MedievalEnglish Poet’sTravel to Scandinavia: A Review onChaucer in Denmark.”Fudan Journal of Foreign Languages and Literatures2(2019):73-77
Yating Zhang, “Room to Write:The Development of Cotemporary British Women’s Writing and Its Future.”Foreign Language and Literature5 (2016):156-60.
Membership
A Member of Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
A Member of New Chaucer Society
A Deputy Member of Shaanxi Translators Association
A Member of Shaanxi Writers Association
