Jonathan Scott Noble
Acting Executive Director, Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
Director, Asia Office
Assistant Provost for Internationalization
(PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003)
505 Main Building
574-631-1786
E-mail: jnoble@nd.edu
http://www.notredameasia.org/leadership_and_board/director/
Geographic focus: Asia (China)
Thematic interests: Contemporary Chinese culture, media, film, theatre, and performance; Chinese language
Current research: Chinese cultural production, performance and visual cultures, and popular culture, specializing in film and theater; contemporary Chinese literature; cultural criticism, including performance theory and transnational issues
Selected publications:
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“Blind Shaft: Performing the ‘Underground’ on and beyond the Screen.” In Chinese Films in Focus II, ed. Chris Berry (Palgrave, 2008)
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“Foreword: Culture Matters—A Report from the Field of U.S.-China Relations,” in China’s Transformations, ed. Timothy Weston and Lionel Jensen (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006)
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“Wang Shuo and the Commercialization of Literature” and “Cao Yu and Thunderstorm” in The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, ed. Joshua Mostow (Columbia University Press, 2003)
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“Titanic in China: Transnational Capitalism as Official Ideology?” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 12, 1 (Spring 2000)
Translations include:
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“Foreword” by Dai Jinhua in Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China by Xiaomei Chen, 2nd ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)
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“Gender and Narrative: Women in Contemporary Chinese Film” by Dai Jinhua in Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, ed. Jing Wang and Tani Barlow (Verso, 2002)
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Seven chapters in The Development of Business Ethics in China, ed. Lu Xiaohe and Georges Enderle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
