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Professor Chenxi Tang specializes in comparative literature, German literature, and philosophy. He obtained his PhD from Columbia University in 2000. Prior to his tenure at UC Berkeley, he taught at the University of Chicago and joined Berkeley's faculty in 2007. A recipient of numerous awards such as the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship, and a Research Fellowship from the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Professor Tang's current research focuses on geopolitics, international relations, and the intersection of literature and intellectual history. His forthcoming book, 'Worlds: Idea Europe versus Idea China Beginning Nineteenth Century', will explore the collective identities of Europe and the Sinosphere. His first monograph, 'Geographic Imagination Modernity: Geography, Literature Philosophy German Romanticism', published by Stanford University Press in 2008, examined how literature and philosophy shaped spatial-temporal frameworks during the classical-romantic period. His work includes 'Imagining World Order: Literature International Law Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800', which analyzes the role of literature in establishing international norms. Tang frequently publishes in notable journals such as Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte and PMLA, contributing comprehensive studies on canonical German literature and influential authors like Goethe, Hölderlin, and Schiller.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and research in German literature and thought.
University of Chicago • Chicago, IL
Teaching and research in comparative literature.
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