Ming Dong Gu Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature Director of the Confucius Institute at UT Dallas Office:  JO 4.130 Phone:  972-883-2760 Email:  mdgu@utdallas.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Chinese literature, comparative poetics, Chinese intellectual thought, fiction theory, hermeneutics, psychoanalytic and semiotic approaches to literature and culture.

Education: 
Ph.D. University of Chicago, Chinese and Comparative Literature, 1999

Awards:
2006: Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Research and Creativity ($6,000), Rhodes College

Recent publications:

Books:
The Anxiety of Originality: Multiple Approaches to Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies (Forthcoming in Chinese: Nanjing University Press).

Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006). pp. 286.

Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005). pp. 334. 

Articles:

• “The Divine and Artistic Ideal: Ideas and Insights for Cross-Cultural Aesthetic Education,” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 42.3 (Fall, 2008): 88-105.  

• “Lu Xun and Modernism/Postmodernism,” Modern Language Quarterly, 69.1 (2008): 29-44.

• ”The Impact of Family Structure on Oedipal Forms in an Oriental Culture: A Case Study of Literary Data in China’s Greatest Classical Novel,” in Rafael N. Ramirez, ed., Family Relation Issues and Challenges (Haupauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2008), pp. 109-130.

• “Dui Zhong-Xi yanjiu zhong yixie wenhua lilun wenti de sikao” (Reflections on the Problems Concerning Some Cultural Theories in China-West Studies,” Jiangsu shehui kexue (Jiangsu Social Sciences), No. 3 (2007): 187-193.

• “Hou lilun shidai dui lilun de dikang ji fanshi xingcheng” (Resistance to Theory and Paradigm Formation in the Age after Theory,” Dangdai waiguo wenxue (Contemporary Foreign Literature), No. 2 (2007): 157-164.

• “Theory of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative Tradition,” Narrative 14.3 (2006): 313-340.

• The Filial Piety Complex: Variations of the Oedipus Theme in Chinese Literature and Culture,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1 (2006): 163-195.

• “Mimetic Theory in Chinese Literary Thought,” New Literary History 36.3 (2005): 403-424.

• “Is Mimetic Theory in Literature and Art Universal?” Poetics Today 26.3 (2005): 459-499.

• “The Book of Changes as an Open Classic: A Semiotic Analysis of Its System of Representation,” Philosophy East & West, 55.2 (2005): 257-282.

• “Elucidation of Images in the Book of Changes: Ancient Insights into Modern Language Philosophy and Hermeneutics,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 31.4 (2004), pp. 469-488.

• “Brocade of Human Desires: The Poetics of Weaving in the Jin Ping Mei and Traditional Commentaries,” Journal of Asian Studies, 63.2 (2004), pp. 333-356.

• “The Universal ‘One’: Towards A Common Conceptual Basis for Chinese and Western Studies,” Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism, 32.2 (2002/2004): 86-105.

• “The Hongloumeng as an Open Novel: For a New Paradigm of Redology,” Monumenta Serica: A Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol. 51 (2003), pp. 253-282.

• “Is Mimetic Theory Alien to Chinese Literary Thought?” in Cheng Aimin and Yang Lixin, eds., Comparative Literature in the Cross-cultural Context  (Nanjing: Yilin Press, 2003), pp. 202-216.

• “Suggestiveness in Chinese Literary Thought: Symphony of Metaphysics and Aesthetics,” Philosophy East & West, Vol. 53, No. 4 (2003), pp. 490-513.

• “The Taiji Diagram: A Meta-Sign in Chinese Thought,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 30.2 (2003), pp. 195-218.

• "Literary Openness: A Bridge across the Divide between Chinese and Western Literary Thought,” Comparative Literature, 55.2 (2003), pp. 112-129.

• “Paradox of Vision and Vision of Paradox: Ideology and Form in the Jin Ping Mei,” Journal of Oriental Studies, 37.2 (1999/2003), pp.175-203.

• “The Universal Significance of Frye's Theory of Fictional Modes,” in Northrop Frye: Eastern and Western Perspectives (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), pp. 162-176.

• “Lu Xun, Jameson, and Multiple Polysemia,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 28, No. 4 (2001/2003): 434-457.

• “Zhong-Xi zhi yi - Zuowei Zhongxi bijiao yanjiu zhi lilun qichu de Dao yu Luogesi (The Dao and Logos as a Common Conceptual Basis for Chinese and Western Studies),” Wenyi yanjiu [Literature and Art Studies] (Beijing, 2001) 3: 65-75.

• “Reconceptualizing the Linguistic Divide: Chinese and Western Theories of the Written Sign,” Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2000): 101-124.

• "In Search of a Common Poetics: A Comparison of Some Chinese and English Poetic Concepts," Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice, ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Milan V. Dimic (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999), 105-115.

• “The Genesis and Evolution of Literary Forms: An Inquiry Across Cultural Boundaries,” Tamkang Review 27, No.4 (1997): 443-475.

• “Fu-Bi-Xing: A Metatheory of Poetry-Making,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articels, Reviews 19 (1997): 1-22.

• “Classical Chinese Poetry: A Catalytic ‘Other’ for Anglo-American Modernist Poetry,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature vol. 23, No. 4 (1996): 993-1024.

• “Visual Poetics and the Poetic Unconscious: Bridging the Gap between Classical Chinese Poetry and Anglo-American Modernist Poetry,” Tamkang Review 26, No.4 (1996): 31-64.

• "A Chinese Oedipus in Exile," Literature and Psychology, Vol. 39, No.1 & 2 (1993), pp.1-25.

• "Lawrence's Childhood Traumas and The Problematic Form of The White Peacock," D.H. Lawrence Review, 24.2, (1992): 127-144.