WU Jianguo

WU Jianguo

Job title:Professor
Field of study:English Language and Literature, English-Chinese Translation Studies, and International Business Communication

Posts Held:

       Director of the MA program in EnglishLanguage and Literature, and supervisor of MA Candidates.

Education:

MA majoring inForeign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Maritime University;MA majoring in Economic and Executive Management from Pepperdine University inLos Angeles, California, USA.

Research Interests:

English Languageand Literature, English-Chinese Translation Studies, and International BusinessCommunication.

Publications:

Over 30 academicpapers published in China Translators’Journal, Literary World (based in Hong Kong), Shanghai Translators’ Journal,Translation, Foreign Languages Research, English and American Literary Studies,Book Town, etc.

Major academicmonologs including Fitzgerald Studies,International Trade (sponsored by China National Ministry of Finance andEconomy), etc

Majortranslations including Ernest Hemingway’s TheSun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Moveable Feast, Islands in theStream, A Lack of Passion ,etc.; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, TheGreat Gatsby, etc; Ira Levin’s ThisPerfect Day; Zane Grey’s Riders ofthe Purple Sage; etc.

Course-booksincluding Intensive English Readings ofthe Advanced Level, English Course Books for Graduate Students (5 Volumes),etc.

Awards:

Award for ModelWorkers of Anhui Province (1985); Award for Excellent Teaching Achievements ofAnhui Province (2nd Prize, 1989); Chen Xiangmei Award for Excellent Education(1996); Celebrated Professor of Shanghai Maritime University (2005).

Academic Activities: 

Visiting Professor to Columbian University in LosAndes, University of Americas in Puebla, University of Science and Technologyin Medlin, Mexico, Lima University of Peru, Fudan University in Shanghai, and anumber of other prestigious universities in China and abroad, lecturing onIntercultural Business Communication, International Marketing Management,Regional Economics, etc.