Faculty
Gu, Ming Dong
Professor , LIT/LANG
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: PhD, University of Chicago, Chinese and Comparative Literature, 1999
Ming Dong Gu has been working in the area of comparative poetics (Chinese and Western) and comparative intellectual thought (Chinese and western). He adopted an interdisciplinary approach to a diverse array of topics including Chinese literature, Chinese philosophy, Chinese-Western poetics, fiction theory, hermeneutics, and psychoanalytic and semiotic studies of literature and culture. He has published two English monographs: 1) Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics (SUNY Press 2005); 2) Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System (SUNY Press 2006), co-edited another book in Chinese, Nobel Prize Winners on Literary Creation (Peking University Press, 1987), and over fifty articles and essays in his field of interest in refereed journals or books. His articles have appeared in New Literary History, Poetics Today, Diacritics, Narrative, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Modern Language Quarterly, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Philosophy East & West (three articles), Journal of Chinese Philosophy (three articles), Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (two articles), Literature and Psychology, D. H. Lawrence Review (two articles), Journal of Oriental Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Monumenta Serica, Tamkang Review (two articles), Translation Review, Wenyi yanjiu [Literature and Art Studies], Wenyi lilun yanjiu (Theoretical Studies of Literature and Art), and other English and Chinese journals. About 20 of them are indexed in The Arts and Humanities Citation Index and/or Social Science Citation Index. In addition, he has published numerous translations and reviews.
In the calendar year of 2008, Gu completed a collection of essays in Chinese, which appears as a book, titled The Anxiety of Originality: Multiple Approaches to Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies, published by Nanjing University Press, China in 2009. In addition, he was responsible for choosing a Chinese theorist for the new edition of Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, writing a headnote to introduce the theorist, and editing a chosen article by him.