received the Changjiang Scholar Award in the PRC in 2008
2008年在中国获得长江学者奖

Wang Dewei graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University and received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has taught at National Taiwan University and Harvard University, and is currently a professor and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. His major works include: From Liu E to Wang Zhenhe: Essays on Chinese Modern Realism; Heteroglossia: Chinese Fiction of the 1930s and 1980s; Reading Contemporary Fiction: Taiwan, Mainland, Hong Kong, and Overseas; Novelizing China: Chinese Fiction from the Late Qing to the Present; Fictional Realism in 20th Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen; Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849–1911. He also translated The Archaeology of Knowledge (by Michel Foucault), among others.

王德威，台湾大学外文系毕业，美国威斯康辛大学麦迪逊校区比较文学博士，曾任教于台湾大学和美国哈佛大学，现任哥伦比亚大学东亚语言文化系教授兼系主任，主要著作有：《从刘鹗到王祯和：中国现代写实主义散论》、《众声喧哗：三十年代与八十年代的中国小说》、《阅读当代小说：台湾、大陆、香港、海外》、《小说中国：晚清到当代的中文小说》、Fiction Realismin20th Cen－turyChina：MaoDun，LaoShe，Shen Congwen； Fin－de－siecleSplendor：Repressed Moderni－tiesofLateQingFiction，1849－1911，译有《知识的考掘》（傅柯，MFoucault著）等。