BIOS of Keynotes

KEYNOTE:

Zhang Hui, Ph.D.
Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature
Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture
Peking University
Beijing, 100871
China



Zhang Hui, Ph.D. Peking University, 1997. He is now a Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature both in Institute of Comparative Literature & Comparative Culture and in Department of Chinese Language & Literature, Peking University. He specializes in comparative poetics and comparative aesthetics, literary and political philosophy, literary hermeneutics. He is the author of Critique of Aesthetical Modernity (Beijing, 1999), Wilhelm Meister, Zarathustra and Goldmann(Shanghai, 2003), Unfinished Self: Feng Zhi and German Aesthetic Thoughts in Modern China (Beijing, 2005); co-author of  Western Aesthetics of Form (Shanghai, 1996); co-editor of Cultural Transformation and Literary Image (Beijing, 1998),and of Companion to Western Aesthetics and Literary Theory (Beijing, 2008); translator of The Quarrel Between Philosophy & Poetry (Beijing, 2004). He is now member of boarding committer and deputy secretary in general of CCLA (Chinese Comparative Literature Association, 1999- ) and Committee Member of the Center of Cross Culture Studies at Peking University (2002- ). 


KEYNOTE:
Marie Carrière, PhD
Director/Directrice
Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne


Associate Chair (Graduate)
Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta
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Marie Carrière is the Director of the Canadian Literature Centre. She is also Associate
Chair (Graduate) of the Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies. She is the author of several scholarly articles and edited volumes. The latter include Migrance comparée/Comparing Migrations: Les littératures du Canada et du Québec/The Literatures of Canada and Québec (with Catherine Khordoc) and the forthcoming book, Les réécrivains: enjeux transtextuels dans la littérature moderne d´expression française (with Patrick Bergeron). She has also published a monograph titled, Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question of Ethics. Her current research is a comparative study of the myth of Medea in contemporary women´s writing, for which Dr. Carrière holds a SSHRC
standard research grant.