Curriculum Vitae (Ding, Ersu) Tertiary Education University of Minnesota (Ph.D.) Soochow University / Fudan University (MA) Jiangsu Teachers College (BA) Teaching Experience 2007/09 Present Professor of English, Lingnan University 1998/09 2007/08 Associate professor of English, Lingnan University 1997/01 1998/07 Professor of Comparative Literature, Peking University 1992/12 1996/12 Associate professor / professor of English & Comparative Literature, Soochow University 1988/09 1992/06 Instructor of English Composition, University of Minnesota 1986/12 1988/06 Teaching assistant in English language and literature courses, University of Minnesota 1985/01 1986/12 Instructor of English, Soochow University Publications Book in English Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations: Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of Signs, University of Toronto Press, 2010 ( 对应 互动与启迪 : 中西符号理论之沟通, 多伦多大学出版社,2010) Books in Chinese 符号与意义, 南京大学出版社,2012 (Signs and Meanings, Nanjing University Press, 2012) 符号学与跨文化研究, 复旦大学出版社,2011 (Semiotics and Cross-Cultural Studies, Fudan University Press, 2011 ) 语言的符号性, 北京外语教学与研究出版社,2000 (The Sign-Character of Language, Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2000) 超越本体 马克思主义意义理论研究, 苏州大学出版社,1994 (Beyond Ontology - A Study of Marxist Theory of Meaning, Soochow University Press, 1994 )
Book of Translation 现代悲剧, 译林出版社,2007 (translation of Raymond Williams Modern Tragedy from English into Chinese, Nanjing: yilin Press, 2007) Articles in English Ubiquitous but Arbitrary Iconicity, Semiotica, Issue 3, 2014, Vol. 300, pp. 119-135. Repositioning William Wordsworth in Contemporary China, Neohelicon, Vol. 38, Issue 2, 2011, pp. 419-426 Cassirer in the Context of Saussurean Semiotics, Chinese Semiotic Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 56-67. Emaciated Chineseness A Semiotic Analysis of How China is Visually Translated at the Opening Ceremony of the 29 th Summer Olympics, Asian Social Science, Vol. 6, Issue 5, 2010, pp. 50-55. The Platonic Triad and Its Chinese Counterpart, Signs International Journal of Semiotics, 2009, pp. 41-56. Modernity vs Premodernity in a Global Literary Context, Interlitteraria, Vol. 14, 2009, pp. 29-40. Metaphor and Culture, Asian Social Science, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2009, pp. 47-69. What is meta- for?, Foreign Language and Literature, Vol. 25, 2008, pp. 145-152. The Return of the Subject in Traian D. Stanciulescu (Ed.) 1 st ROASS Conference Proceedings, Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies, 2008, pp. 771-778. Saussure, Peirce, and the Chinese Picto-phonetic Sign, American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 23, 2007, pp. 67-79. Handles and Sides of Metaphor, Semiotica, Vol. 167, 2007, pp. 119-134. 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, Neohelicon, Vol. 32, Issue 2, 2005, pp. 313-325. Hidden Iconicity A Peircean Perspective on the Chinese Picto-phonetic Sign, Semiotica, Vol. 154 ¼, 2005, pp. 273-285. History as Effects of Power, arcadia, Band 39, 2004, pp. 312-321. Chinese Appropriation of British and American Literature past and present, The Rising Generation, Vol. CL. No. 4, 2004, pp. 201-205. Othering the Face and Facing the Other: Textual Strategies in Transnational Cultural Production, 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, 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, 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, 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 符号学与比较文学, 比较文学 ( 陈惇等编 ), 高等教育出版社,2014, 340-362 页 ( Semiotics and Comparative Literature in Comparative Literature, Higher Education Publisher, 2014, pp. 340-362) 中西符号理论之沟通 再版, 孙景尧纪周年祭纪念文集, 上海文艺出版社,2014, 第 110-121 页 ( Bridging Chinese and Western Semiotics [reprint] in Essays in Memory of Mr. Sun Jingyao, Shanghai Arts Publisher, 2014, pp. 110-121) 天理何在? 古希腊悲剧的主旋律, 外国语言文学,2013 年第 4 期,217-225 页 ( Where Is Divine Justice? A Recurring Question in Greek Tragedies, Foreign Language and Literature, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 217-225) 维柯及其 新科学 的当代意义, 比较文学与世界文学, 第 1 卷,2012 年,86-92 页 ( Vico s New Science and Its Contemporary Relevance, Comparative Literature and World Literature, Vol. 1, Peking University, 2012, pp. 86-92) 互动与启迪: 跨文化研究的求知动因, 苏州大学学报 ( 哲学社会科学版 ), 2012 年第 3 期,108-111 页 ( Interactions and Illuminations: Cross-
Cultural Studies with an Intellectual Agenda, Journal of Soochow University [Philosophy and Social Science Edition], 3 rd Issue, 2012, pp. 108-111) 符号的任意性与理据性并行不悖, 符号与传媒, 第 4 卷,2012 年,118-131 页 ( Co-existence of Semiotic Arbitrariness and Motivatedness, Semiotics and Media, Vol. 4, 2012, pp. 118-131) 中西符号理论之沟通, 符号与传媒, 第 3 卷,2011 年,30-41 页 ( Connecting Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign, Semiotics and Media, Vol. 3, 2011, pp. 30-41) 皮尔士符号理论与汉字分类, 外国语言文学,2010 年第 4 期,217-222 页 ( Peircean Semiotics and the Classification of Chinese Characters, Foreign Language and Literature, Issue. 4, 2010, pp. 217-222.) 悲情与炫耀: 华人移民文学中一对相反的叙事策略, 中国比较文学, 2010 年第 4 期,75-83 页 ( Pathos and Flaunting: Two Antithetic Narrative Strategies of Chinese Migrant Literature, Comparative Literature in China, 1 st Issue, 2010, pp. 75-83.) 论诗性逻辑, 深圳大学学报,2010 年第 1 期,105-109 页 ( Poetic Logic, Shenzhen University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1 st Issue 2010, pp. 105-109) 前现代- 现代转型的文学再现, 外国文学评论,2009 年第 4 期,121-128 页 ( Literary Representations of the Premodern-Modern Transformation, Foreign Literature Review,Issue 4, 2009, pp. 121-128) 重建隐语与文化的联系, 外国语言文学,2009 年第 4 期,213-227 页 ( Reconnecting Metaphor and Culture, Foreign Language and Literature, Issue 4, 2009, pp. 213-227) 文学市场与叙事策略 -- 高行健个例分析, 澳门人文学刊,2008 第 2 卷,18-27 页 ( Literary Markets and Narrative Strategies a case study of Gao Xingjian, Macau Humanities Journal, Vol. 2, 2008, pp. 18-27) 对他者的挪用, 中国学术,2007 年第 3 期,244-259 页 ( Appropriation of the Other [Chinese translaton], China Scholarship, Vol. 6, 3 rd Issue, 2007, pp. 244-259) 译后记, 现代悲剧, 译林出版社,2007,219-221 页 (Epilogue to the Chinese translation of Modern Tragedy by Raymond, Yilin Press, 2007, pp. 219-221) 作为象征资本的人文精神, 澳门人文学刊,2006 年第 1 卷,49-52 页 ( Humanistic Spirit as Symbolic Capital, Macau Humanities Journal, Vol. 1, 2006, pp. 49-52) 无法沟通 的神话, 文化传递与文学形象, 北京大学出版社,1999,27-33 页 ( The Tale of the Impossible, in Transmission of Culture and Literary Images, Peking University Press, 1999, pp. 27-33) 全球意识与比较文学实践, 文化: 中西对话中的差异与共存, 南京大学出版社,1999,198-205 页 ( Global Consciousness and Praxis of Comparative Literature, in Culture: Diversite et coexistence dans le dialogue Chine-Occident, Nanjing University Press, 1999, pp. 198-205)
弗莱象征理论的符号学解读, 弗莱研究, 中国社会科学出版社,1996, 140-148 ( A Semiotic Interpretation of Northrop Frye s Theory of Symbols ) in Frye Study: China and West, Chinese Social Science Publisher, 1996, pp. 140-148) 经典形成的跨文化研究, 中国比较文学,1996 年第 3 期,23-34 页 ( Investigating Canon-formation from a Cross-cultural Perspective, Comparative Literature in China, 3rd Issue, 1996, pp. 23-34) 神话制作及其社会心理功能, 国外文学,1996 年第 2 期,49-52 页 ( Myth-making and its Socio-Psychological Functions, Foreign Literatures, 2nd Issue, 1996, pp. 49-52) 康德的幽灵: 哈贝马斯美学思想评述, 文艺理论与批评,1994 年第 6 期,121-124 页 ( The Specter of Kant: Some Thoughts on Habermas Aesthetic Theory, Art Theory and Criticism, 6th Issue, 1994, pp. 121-124) 论符号学的性质与范围, 苏州大学学报外国语言文学专辑,1994 年第 4 卷,1-6 页 ( The Nature and Scope of Semiotics, Social Science Journal of Soochow University [Foreign Language and Literature Series], Vol. 4, 1994, pp. 1-6) 论皮尔士的符号三分法, 四川外语学院学报,1994 年第 3 期,10-14 页 ( Peirce's Triadic Theory of the Sign, Academic Journal of Sichuan Foreign Languages Institute, 3rd Issue, 1994, pp. 10-14) 符号学研究: 世界与中国, 中国比较文学,1994 年第 2 期,13-22 页 ( Semiotic Studies: China and the World, Comparative Literature in China, 2nd Issue, 1994, pp. 13-22) 解构理论之症结谈, 外国文学评论,1994 年第 3 期,40-48 页 ( The Aporias of Deconstruction, Foreign Literature Review, 3 rd Issue, 1994, pp. 40-48) 文本 经典 权力, 多元文化时代的比较文学, 湖南文艺出版社, 1994,55-60 页 ( Text, Canon and Power, in Comparative Literature in the Age of Cultural Pluralism, Hunan Art and Literature Publishing House, 1994, pp.55-60) 当代西方文学研究与马克思主义符号理论, 苏州大学学报域外文学论丛,1993 年第 3 卷,1-4 页 ( Contemporary Literary Studies in the West and Marxist Theory of the Sign, Social Science Journal of Sochow University, [Foreign Language and Literature Series], Vol. 3, 1993, pp. 1-4) Participation in Scholarly Organizations Vice President of the Chinese Research Association for Language and Semiotic Studies (1994 1997) Member of the Editorial Board of The Semiotic Review of Books, University of Toronto (1997 2000), Member of the Committee for Literary Theory of the International Association of Comparative Literature (1997 2005), Member of the Executive Council of the International Comparative Literature Association (2000 2004),
Member of the Editorial Board of Comparative Literature in China, Shanghai International Studies University (1998 Present), Fellow of International Communicology Institute (2005 Present) Member of the Editorial Board of Chinese Semiotic Studies, De Gruyter Mouton (2010 Present), Member of the Editorial Board of Cowrie published by Shanghai Normal University (2010 Present), Member of the Academic Committee of Signs and Media published by Sichuan University (2010 Present). 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