Department:

Institute of English Language and Literature

Teaching Center for College English

 

Email address:

zhaox@lzu.edu.cn

 

About:

Zhao Xia works on American Literature, Studies on English and Chinese Translation, and College English. She recently hold the positions of Associate Professor in the Institute of English Language and Literature and the supervisor of the graduate programme in American Literature and Studies on English and Chines Translation.   She holds a BA and MA in English Language and Literature from the School of Foreign Languages of Lanzhou University, and a Ph.D from the the School of Foreign Languages of Shandong University. She got the sponsorship from China Scholarship Council to work as a visiting scholar for a year in Ohio University in the U.S.A from 2004 to 2005. She participated in Chinese University Teacher Training in English sponsored by both University of Cambridge and Tsinghua University and has successfully delivered an integrated (online with face-to-face) English language course. 

 

Teaching interests: 

English Public Speaking

American literature

College English

A Survey: Major English Speaking Countries

 

Research projects:

Central University Project of Lanzhou University: Urban Image in Saul Bellow’s Works, 2012.

 

Published works: 

Zhao Xia. Imagination and Salvation in Cities. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press. 2016,4.

Zhao Xia, Wang Wei. “Rethink the Female Images, Sula and Nel, in Morrison’s Sula from the Perspective of Androgyny”. Journal of Lanzhou University Social Sciences CSSCI. 2010, 1.

Zhao Xia.“The Value of James Joyce’s Letters”. Journal of Lanzhou University Social Sciences CSSCI. 2006, 1.

Wang Qi, Zhao Xia. “Programming Support Environment of Web Based Learning from Vygotskian Thought”. E-Education Research CSSCI. 2005, 10.

Zhao Xia. “A Comparative Study of Saul Bellow’s Dangling Man and Herzog”. Journal of Lanzhou University Social Sciences CSSCI. 2003, 12.