Aaron Lan

Professor (Aaron) Feng Lan received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 1998. He specializes in comparative literature, with particular research interests in Chinese-American literary relations, modern Chinese literature, Chinese diasporic literature and culture, Chinese cinema, and translation studies. He is the author of Ezra Pound and Confucianism: Remaking Humanism in the Face of Modernity (University of Toronto Press, 2005), and has published widely in these areas in English and Chinese academic journals. Professor Lan teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses and has made consistent efforts to promote FSU’s study-abroad program in China. He is twice the recipient of FSU’s University Teaching Award (2002, 2013).

Courses Taught

Chinese Cinema

Chinese Calligraphy and Poetry

Chinese Diasporic Literature & Culture

Chinese-English Translation

East Asian Humanities

East Asian War Films

Modern Chinese Literature

Selected Publications

• “The Confucian Pilgrimage of Ezra Pound as a Young Egoist Poet.” Foreign Language and Literature Studies 38.3 (2021): 309-320.
• “From Thunderstorm to Golden Flower: The Politico-Economic Conditions of Adaptive Appropriation.” Comparative Literature: East & West 3.1 (2019): 53-67.
• “Patterns of Western Transplanting-Translating the Doctrine of ‘Keji Fuli.’” Comparative Literature in China, no.1 (2019): 63-77.
• “Rewriting the Individual in Revolutionary China.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 21:1 (2017): 45-52.
• “The Hidden Dragon in the Gold Mountain: Captivity Narrative of the Chinese Laborers in Diaspora.” Overseas Chinese History Studies, no.1 (2014): 42-50.
• "Chinese Diasporic Culture Studies in the 'Post-National' Age: Production of Discourses and Theoretical Transformation." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Arts 32.2 (2012): 129-36.
• "From the De-Based Literati to the Debased Intellectual: A Chinese Hypochondriac in Japan.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 23.1 (2011): 105-32.
• "Zhang Yimou's Hero: Reclaiming the Martial Arts Film for 'All under Heaven.'" Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 20.1 (2008): 1-43.
• "Reframing the Chinese Cultural Revolution in Diaspora: Joan Chen's The Sent-Down Girl." Literature/Film Quarterly 32.3 (2004): 193-98.
• "The Female Individual and the Empire: A Historicist Approach to Mulan and Kingston's Woman Warrior." Comparative Literature 55.3 (2003): 193-98.