Jing Zhang

Jing Zhang

Assistant Professor of Chinese Language & Culture

Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
M.A., Peking University
B.A., Fudan University

Professor Zhang teaches Chinese language at all levels and offers courses on a wide range of topics in Chinese literature and culture. Her research interests include pre-modern Chinese narratives and culture, with an emphasis on the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries when vernacular fiction matured.

Her recent project examines the formation of literati community and the changing notion of author through “storytelling” and rewriting about fervent female readers in the 1620s and 30s.

Recent Courses
First Year Modern Chinese I
Third Year Modern Chinese I
The Writing of the Strange in Chinese Literature
Intermediate Chinese II

Contact Information

New College of Florida
Division of Humanities
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243-2197

jzhang@ncf.edu
(941) 487-4279

Office of the Provost
New College of Florida
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, Florida  34243

Phone: (941) 487-4200
Fax: (941) 487-4201
provost@ncf.edu