Jonathan Scott Noble
Provost’s Advisor for Asia Initiatives
Acting Director, Center for Asian Studies; Codirector, Business and Culture Program in China
(PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003)
505 Main Building
574-631-1786
E-mail: jnoble@nd.edu
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: “Blind Shaft: Performing the ‘Underground’ on and beyond the Screen.” In Chinese Films in Focus II, ed. Chris Berry (Palgrave, 2008); “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); “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); “Titanic in China: Transnational Capitalism as Official Ideology?” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 12, 1 (Spring 2000). Translations include: “Foreword” by Dai Jinhua in Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China by Xiaomei Chen, 2nd ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); “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); seven chapters in The Development of Business Ethics in China, ed. Lu Xiaohe and Georges Enderle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
