Guo Quanzhao

Lecturer

School of Translation Studies, Shandong University

E-mail:nanjingguo@tom.com

Tel:0631-5677005

Mailing Address:

School of Translation Studies

Shandong University at Weihai

NO.180 Wenhuaxi Road

Weihai City, Shandong Province, China

P.C. 264209

Office Hours:

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

Education:

PhD, Comparative Literature and World Literature, Nanjing University

MA, British and American Literature, Shanghai Normal University

BA, English Language and Literature, Shandong University at Weihai

BIO:

Guo Quanzhao is lecturer at Shandong University. He graduated from Nanjing University as a Ph.D. in comparative literature and world literature, from Shanghai Normal University as a M.A. in British and American literature, and from Shandong University at Weihai as a B.A. in English language and literature. His research interests include foreign literature and western aesthetics, and he teaches courses in college English, E-C translation and literary theories. He is the author of The Rose and the Snail: A Study of Umberto Eco’s Aesthetics (to be published in 2020). He has published some essays on various journals in China such as Literature & Art Studies, Yellow Sea Academic Forum, Journal of Art Theory & Art History. His essays have dealt with topics such as contemporary foreign and Chinese literature, aesthetics and fine arts.

He has taught college English since 1999, and E-C translation and literary theories since 2018, at School of Translation Studies, Shandong University at Weihai. He regards teaching as a kind of art as well as a skill. He attaches great importance to the integration of knowledge and practice, education and recreation, and mutual respect in his teaching, which is well accepted and acclaimed by his students.

Selected Publications:

Selected Journal Articles and Essays:

Guo Quanzhao. 2018. Umberto Eco’s Study of Medieval Aesthetics and Its Significance. Journal of Art Theory & Art History No.2: 128-144.

Guo Quanzhao. 2017. Daily and Holy: A Review on Todorov’s Discussion on Seventeenth-century Dutch Painting. Art Journal 105(6): 115-119.

Guo Quanzhao. 2017. The Art of Memory, Image and the Novel On Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Foreign Language and Literature Studies 2017: 45-52.

Guo Quanzhao. 2015. Native Land and Original Trauma On Tong Weige’s Null World in Unwounded Age and Summer Downpour. Yellow Sea Academic Forum 22：214-223.

Guo Quanzhao. 2014. Eco’s Aesthetics and His Writing of Novels. Literature & Art Studies 271(9): 59-68.

Guo Quanzhao, Bu Lili.2012. How Does Literature Touch upon History? Narrative Analysis on Nanjing Massacre in The Flowers of War and Nanjing Requiem. Journal of Central South University of Technology 18(4): 207-210.

Guo Quanzhao. 2012. The Aesthetics of Melancholia and the Contemporary New Sensibility. Forum of Arts 70(4): 12-18.

Guo Quanzhao. 2011. The Puzzle of the End of Art. Forum of Arts 65(5): 64-67.

Selected Research Projects:

Guo Quanzhao. 2019. A Study of Melancholic Writings in English Renaissance Literature . 19BWW056. Sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China.

Guo Quanzhao. 2018. A Study of the Influence of Dutch Paintings on Nineteenth Century British and French Realist Novels. Subproject of the Humanities&Social sciences Youth Team Project. Sponsored by Shandong University.

Guo Quanzhao. 2015. A Comparative Study of Chinese and British Pastoral Literature from a Cross-cultural Perspective. 2015SD0063A. 3/3. Sponsored by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Guo Quanzhao. 2014. Umberto Eco’s Aesthetic Works and Fictional Writings. 2014008. Sponsored by the Shandong Provincial Department of Culture.

Courses Taught:

College English; E-C Translation; Literary Theories

Expertise Areas: foreign literature; western aesthetics