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Chunjie Zhang is an Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Davis, with affiliated appointments in Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, East Asian Studies, Critical Theory, Global Migration Center, and Religious Studies Graduate Group. She is a leading scholar in transcultural German studies, postcolonial theory, and global modernisms, with a particular focus on Sino-European intellectual and literary exchanges.
- Ph.D., Duke University
- M.A., Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
- B.A., Peking University, China
Her research explores global and transcultural perspectives in literature and culture, especially in the long eighteenth century and global modernisms. She investigates cosmopolitanism, world literature, migration, and the interplay between Chinese and Western philosophies. Her work challenges Eurocentric frameworks by highlighting non-European contributions to global modernity. Key themes include transculturality, postcolonialism, refugee narratives, and the philosophical legacies of Kant, Herder, and Goethe in transnational contexts.
Her recent publications span topics from Max Weber’s engagement with Confucian ethics to Brecht’s translation aesthetics and Goethe’s world literature. She has co-edited special journal issues and book series that foreground global connections, particularly between Asia and Europe. Her scholarship reveals a consistent trajectory of decentering national paradigms and constructing transnational intellectual histories.
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
- DAAD Research Grant
- Hellman Fellowship
- Volkswagen/Mellon Fellowship
- NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship
- Eleanore and Harold Jantz Fellowship
Dr. Zhang has been actively involved in academic leadership, serving on editorial boards and as director-at-large of the Goethe Society of North America. She co-directed the interdisciplinary digital project Migration and Aesthetics at UC Davis and has chaired committees for major academic associations. She teaches courses on travel, multiculturalism, enlightenment, and China-Europe representation at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
She is currently completing a book manuscript titled The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Cultures in China and the West, 1900–1960, which examines how thinkers from both regions reimagined rationalism and ethics beyond national boundaries.
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