Associate Professor of English
CSU, Chico: American Literature, Narrative and Multicultural Literature.

Aiping Zhang is the author of The Enchanted Places: The Use of Setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction, published by Greenwood Publishing Group, in 1997. His articles on Cooper, Twain, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Timothy Mo, Michael Collins, Alma Luz Villanueva and others have appeared in journals and books, such as James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, James Joyce Quarterly, Issues and Identities, and The British Novelists since 1960. He has appeared both as a panelist and keynote speaker on numerous national and international conferences organized by American Literature Association, MELUS, MELUS Europe, James Fenimore Cooper Society, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, and Thomas Wolfe Society. In addition, he has lectured at Fudan University and Beijing Language and Culture University in China and University of Rome in Italy. He holds a BA in English from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, where he was born and raised, and a MA and Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. Since 1993, he has been teaching courses in American literature and Multiculturalism at CSU, Chico, one of which is a comparative study of Faulkner and Morrison. He is also the MA graduate coordinator in the English Department. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship and a CSU Research Award. He is currently finishing a manuscript, The No-No Man: The Representation of Manhood in Asian American Fiction.
 

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