赵无名 ZHAO Wuming Associate Professor, PhD Candidate, the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Japan. Upon receiving her BA from Beijing University of Foreign Studies in 1983, Wuming Zhao worked as a researcher and translator in the Department of Foreign Film Studies at China Film Association for 11 years until she moved to Kyoto, Japan in 1992. She received her MA in American Studies from DoshishaUniversity in 1996 and completed her PhD course work there. She taught in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences of Kyoto Prefectural Medical University for 11 years before she joined the Center for International Studies at ShantouUniversity.
Professor Zhao regards herself a transnational Chinese. Her multi-cultural experience disrupted her Us/Them (or East/West) framework, and motivates her to explore alternative comparative approaches in her ongoing examination of the cultural meanings of Gender, Race, and Class. She looks forward to sharing her experience and ideas through her classes and to learning together with her students and colleagues.
Courses she has taught include, The American Dream and the Chinese Dream/美国梦与中国梦(双语), Understanding “East and West”: Comparative Practices and Cultural Perspectives; 比较文化学入门：灰姑娘在美国、日本和中国/Cinderella in America, Japan, and China: Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies (Bilingual); 文化媒体研究中的叙事、类型与文本 (中英双语)/ Narrative, Genre, and Text in Cultural and Media Studies (Bilingual); Narrative and Meaning Construction in Media (bilingual英中双语); 社会性别与爱情de社会文化叙事/Gender and Love as Socio-Cultural Narratives; Why Do We Need Stories? : An Introduction to Narrative Studies; Internationalization and Critical Thinking; Gender and Sexual Identities: Social Construction, Reality, and Agency; Introduction to the Study of Popular Culture; Introduction to Cultural Studies: Concepts and Methods; Gender, Race, and Class in Popular Culture. Her publications include Co-edited and co-authored works, such as: Theory and Practice in American Studies: Cultural Politics in a Multiracial Society (2007), as well as several articles and book chapters, such as: “Gendered Dreams and the Hollywood Cross-Class Romance,” inConsidering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Transnational and Transatlantic American Studies. (2007), and “The Cinderella Narrative in Eighties’ Hollywood,” in Doshisha American Studies Journal (2003).
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