Name: Zhang Dexu
Gender: Male
Title：Associate Professor
E-mail: zhangdexu@seu.edu.cn
Address：Mailbox #15, School of Foreign Languages, Jiulonghu Campus, SEU
Zhang Dexu works on twentieth-century British literature and literary theory and has special interests in the novel, narrative ethics, realism, friendship, and literary education. He received his B.A. from Northeast Normal University and his Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and had been a visiting scholar of the English Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Major Publications
Zhang, Dexu. “Inscribing African History: Contemporaneity and V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 46.2 (2020): 247-267.
Zhang, Dexu. “Representational Ethics: The Mimic Men and the Mimic Men.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 57.1 (2016): 29-41.
Zhang, Dexu. “Uncomfortable Identity and Ethical Knowledge in V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 42.1 (2016): 147-167.
Zhang, Dexu. The First-Person Narration and Ethics of Alterity in 'Tell Me Who to Kill.' South Asian Review, 34.2 (2013): 63-78.
Zhang, Dexu. “Truth About the Identity of the Other: Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival and Its Cognitive Mode”. Journal of Northeastern University (Social Science), 2019, 21(5): 545-550.
Zhang, Dexu. “Literary Ethical Criticism in the West: Genealogies and Methods.” Journal of Northeastern University (Social Science), 2016, 18(2): 209-214.
Translation
Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, by Joseph North, Nanjing University Press, 2021.
What Are Universities For? by Stefan Collini, Nanjing University Press, 2023.
