Adele Yifan Zhang

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Assistant Professor of Communications
 

Education

  • Ph.D. in English, University of Washington, USA, 2012
  • Master in Arts in English, Zhengzhou University, China, 2006
  • Bachelor in Arts in English, Zhengzhou University, China, 2003

Subject Taught/ Student Project Mentor

  • Communications

EXPERIENCE

Academic experience

  • Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Washington, 2007-2012

Other professional experience

  • Research Assistant, Department of English, University of Washington
  • Office Assistant, East Asia Library, University Of Washington
  • Academic Assistant, the Center for English Studies (CES), Zhengzhou University, China 
  • Interpreter and Translator, Globalization and Indigenous Culture International Conference, Zhengzhou University, China
  • Translator, Henan And The World Bilingual Version (Henan TV International Program), China
  • English Hostess, Henan Youth 'CCTV Cup' English Speaking Contest, China

ACADEMIC WORK

Research & publications

 

  • Yifan Zhang. “The ‘Wildly Misappropriated’ Work: The Application of Cultural Studies in Business Communication Classrooms”. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice. (upcoming)
  • Yifan Zhang. “The ‘Wildly Misappropriated’ Work: The Application of Cultural Studies in Business Communication Classrooms”. Conference presentation. The 80th International Annual Conference, the Association for Business Communication, Seattle, Oct. 28-31, 2015.
  • Spivak, Gayatri C. Translator’s Preface. Of Grammatology. By Jacques Derrida. Trans. YingjianGuo and Yifan Zhang. From Deconstruction to the Critique of Globalization: A Spivak Reader. Ed. Yongguo Chen. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007.
  • Spivak, Gayatri C. “Lingering on the ‘Question of the Preface’—Derrida and Nietzsche, Heidegger, Husserl.” Trans. Yifan Zhang and YingjianGuo. New Literature. Vol 7. Zhengzhou: Daxiang Publishing House, 2007.
  • Lofting, Hugh. The Story of Doctor Dolittle and the Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. Trans. Yifan Zhang and YingjianGuo. Guiling: Lijiang Publishing House, 2007.
  • Henan, China Picture Album. Trans. Yifan Zhang. Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Henan Province. 2005
  • Miller, Joseph Hillis. “Material Interests: Modernist English Literature as Critique of Global Capitalism”. Trans. YingjianGuo and Yifan Zhang. Journal of Zhengzhou University, vol. 5. 2004.