DR. ZHAOMING QIAN

Research Professor
Ph.D., Tulane, 1991

Zhaoming Qian’s teaching and research interests focus on American modernism, interart relations, East-West comparative poetics, and Asian American literature. While he has taught and written about English and Irish writers (from Shakespeare to Joyce), his recent work has addressed the interconnection between American modernism and the Orient.

Dr. Qian joined the UNO English faculty in 1991. During his years at UNO, he has published five books, including Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams (1995) and The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens  (2003), which helped inspire the 1996 Yale conference on "Modernism and the Orient" and the 2004 Cambridge conference on "Orientalism and Modernism, " respectively.  His most recent book titled Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends  (2008) makes available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese peers.  His current project is on intercultural collaboration and globalization: “The Cassia Tree” (Williams/Wang) to Brokeback Mountain (Proulx/Lee).

Dr. Qian is Y. C. Tang Chair Professor and founding Director of the
Center for Modernist Studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, where he lectures and engages in collaborative projects for two months each summer.  He was honored as a Yale Beinecke Fellow in 1992, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 1998, Convenor of the Ezra Pound International Conference in Beijing in 1999, Franklin Research Fellow of the American Philosophical Society in 2003, UNO Research Professor in 2004, and Yale Comparative Literature Fellow in 2005. Other honors given him include a Tulane Richard Perrill Adams prize (1990), three UNO research awards (1993, 1995, 1996), and lecture invitations from Yale (1996), Salamanca (2000), Fudan (2003), Cambridge (2004), and Beijing Institute of Technology (2008).

Dr. Qian has offered graduate seminars on American modernism (Pound-Williams-H.D., Stevens-Moore, Pound-Eliot, Stevens-Eliot-Frost, Lowell-Bishop) and the use of European and Asian art in American poetry.  He regularly teaches undergraduate courses in American literature 1865-present, American modernism, early 20th century poetry, contemporary poetry, Asian American literature, and Asian literature (masterpieces of India, China, and Japan).  Among the new courses he has designed are Poetry across Cultures, American Writers at Home, and Transpacific Literature.

Selected Publications:

Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends   (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Annotated Shakespeare: The Poems (Beijing: Commercial Press, 2007).

The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003).



Ezra Pound and China (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003).

Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995).

Annotated Shakespeare: The Sonnets (Beijing: Commercial Press, 1990; 2nd printing 1995; 3rd printing 1999).

20th-Century English and American Stories ( Beijing: FLTR Press, 1987).

Phone Number:
(504) 280-7078

Email Dr. Qian@
zqian@uno.edu

Address: Bicentennial Education Building 173

Office Hours:

TTH 12:00-12:30pm;
1:45-2:45pm
W 12:30-2:00pm

Courses for Fall 2007:

Engl 2374-001:
Asian American Literature
TTH 12:30-1:45pm


Engl 4390-476:
Modernism and the Visual Arts
(Online)