Dr. Jiayan Mi

Assistant Professor of English and Modern Languages
Office: Bliss Building 218
Phone: (609) 771-2468
mi@tcnj.edu

COURSES

Elementary Chinese 101-102-103
FSP 104-f4 Vietnam War and Hollywood Cinema
LIT 394-01: Zen and the Beat Writers
MDL 371-01: Asian Cinema in Global Context: Martial Arts/Kung Fu, Anime and Bollywood
FSP-101-12: Man, Machine and Cyborg: Understanding Technoculture
LIT 217-04 Multicultural Literature: Diaspora and Transmigration in Asian American Literature
CHNS 365-01: New Chinese Cinema: Gender, National Identity and Post-Socialist Ideology
ENGL 670-01 Graduate Seminar: Diaspora and Transmigration: Critical Issues in Asian American Literature
ENGL 345-05: Orientalism and Western Imagination.
ENGL 345-04: Virtual Tibet: Cool Spirituality in an Age of Popular Culture
ENGL 218-03: World Literature, 1800 to the Present—Literature of the Quest: Journey, Initiation and Identity Politics.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Literature and Chinese Modernity
East-West Comparative Poetics
New Chinese/Asian Cinema— Visual Culture
Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture
Globalization and Diaspora Culture
Asian American Literature
Critical Theory
20th Century World Modernism and Post-Modernism

DEGREES EARNED

B.A. English Language and Literature, Sichuan Foreign Studies University, Chongqing, PRC, 1985
M. A. Chinese and Comparative Literature, Peking University, PRC, 1991 Ph. D. English Literature and Cultural Study, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996
Ph. D. Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Visual Culture, University of California, Davis, 2002

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Self-Fashioning and Reflexive Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry, 1919-1949. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
“The Visual Imagined Communities: Media State, Virtual Citizenship and TELEvision in River Elegy.” The Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.4 (October-December 2005): 327-340.
"The Fantastic/Exotic Uncanny: Kafka’s and Borges’s Labyrinthine Narrative of China." Tamkang Review XXXVI.3 (Spring 2006): 105-136.
“Poetics of Navigation: River Lyricism and Dream-work in Post-Mao China.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Forthcoming, Spring 2007.
“Entropic Anxiety and the Allegory of Disappearance: Hydro-Utopianism in Zheng Yi’s Old Well and Zhang Wei’s Old Boat.” China Information. Forthcoming.
"Self-fashioning, Enlightenment and Economie Libidinale: Dialectics of the Body—Anatomy of a Bio-text in Guo Moruo's The Goddess." The New Perspectives: A Comparative Literature Yearbook. Ed. Antony Tatlow. (Winter 1995): 45-77. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 1995.

RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS